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Àâòîð:

Çàãëàâèå:

Confessions of an English opium-eater and Other writings

Òèï íîñèòåëÿ:

Îäíîòîìíèê.

Ìåñòî èçäàíèÿ:

London

Èçäàòåëüñòâî:

Penguin books

Ãîä èçäàíèÿ:

2008

Îáúåì:

296 [12] p.

Íàçâàíèå ñåðèè:

Penguin books

Àííîòàöèÿ:

Confessions is a remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the 'Church of Opium'.Thomas De Quincey consumed daily large quantities of laudanum (at the time a legal painkiller), and this autobiography of addiction hauntingly describes his surreal visions and hallucinatory noctural wanderings though London, along with the nightmares, despair and paranoia to which he became prey. The result is a work in which the effects of drugs and the nature of dreams, memory and imagination are seamlessly interwoven. Confessions forged a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, paving the way fot later generations of literary drug-users from Baudelaire to Burroughs, and anticipating psychoanalysis with its insights into the subconscious. This edition is based on the original serial version of 1821, and reproduces the two 'sequels', 'Suspiria de Profundis' (1845) and 'The English Mail-Coach' (1849).It also includes a critical introduction discussing the romantic figure of the addict and the tradition of confessional literature, and an appendix on opium in the nineteenth century.

Ñîäåðæàíèå:

On the knocking at the gate in Macbeth; Suspiria de profundis; The english mail-coach

ISBN:

978-0-19-953793-8

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Ðàçìåðû èçäàíèÿ:

20 cì.

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