The Dedalus Book of Literary Suicides - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dedalus Book of Literary Suicides write by Gary Lachman. This book was released on 2008. The Dedalus Book of Literary Suicides available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Writers have been killing themselves for centuries. From Petronius in ancient Rome to the 20th Century Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, writers, more than any other kind of artist, have taken their own lives in an extraordinary number of ways. With bullets, poison, drugs and swords, poets, playwrights, novelists and philosophers have sent themselves off into the big sleep. Others, one step shy of that last exit, have made great literature about the urge to self-destruction. For the first time, Gary Lachman investigates the many links between self-death and the written word, bringing together an unusual gallery of literary greats and a host of other fatal characters. Typically for Dedalus, the covers gorgeous. Sasha Selavie in QX International Dead Letters ultimately proves to be at once stimulating and thought-provoking and the section devoted to various suicidal writings is most diverting. Peter Burton in One80 Reviews
The Dedalus Book of Literary Suicides
The Dedalus Book of Literary Suicides - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dedalus Book of Literary Suicides write by Gary Lachman. This book was released on 2024-05-20. The Dedalus Book of Literary Suicides available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Lachman's goal to write a book 'on writers who had killed themselves or had tried to, or had written about suicide at some length or depth' would be immense. To qualify, the author requires the suicide to be in some way 'interesting'. Thus we have the philosopher Philipp Mainlander, who killed himself because of the second law of thermodynamics; Zeno, who purportedly hanged himself after stubbing his toe on a turtle; and Yukio Mishima's sensational and bloody hara-kiri performance Suicides are arranged by type: Existential suicides brought on by metaphysical issues, emotionally rich Romantic suicides; political suicides; manic-depressive mortal coil shuffling a la Sylvia Plath; and the bizarre and often nonchalant suicides of many Surrealists. Lachman focuses on little known or forgotten characters such as Polish avant garde figure Witkacy; Thomas Chatterton, 'the original tragic Romantic genius'; narcissistic publisher Harry Crosby; and the tormented Austrian poet Georg Trakl. The second part of Dead Letters is a selection of writings about suicide whose real value lies in Lachman's research and his knack of smoothly relating obscure biographical tidbits and philosophical ideas. This work on a grim subject never becomes overly morbid and Lachman remains respectful of his troubled subjects. Suicide is not recommended, but this volume surely is. Splendid summary of self destruction.' Mike Pursley in Fortean Times
The Dedalus Book of Literary Suicide
The Dedalus Book of Literary Suicide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dedalus Book of Literary Suicide write by Gary Lachman. This book was released on 2008. The Dedalus Book of Literary Suicide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Dedalus Book of the 1960s
The Dedalus Book of the 1960s - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dedalus Book of the 1960s write by Gary Lachman. This book was released on 2022-01-23. The Dedalus Book of the 1960s available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. It is the 60s – yes it is magic, sex, drugs and rock and roll. In The Dedalus Book of the 1960s: Turn Off Your Mind, Gary Lachman uncovers the Love Generation's roots in occultism and explores the dark side of the Age of Aquarius. His provocative revision of the 1960s counterculture links Flower Power to mystical fascism, and follows the magical current that enveloped luminaries like the Beatles, Timothy Leary and the Rolling Stones, and darker stars like Charles Manson, Anton LaVey, and the Process Church of the Final Judgment. Acclaimed by satanists and fundamentalist Christians alike, this edition includes a revised text incorporating new material on the 'suicide cult' surrounding Carlos Castaneda; the hippy serial killer Charles Sobhraj; the strange case of Ira Einhorn, 'the Unicorn'; the CIA and ESP; the new millennialism and more. From H.P. Lovecraft to the Hell’s Angels, find out how the Morning of the Magicians became the Night of the Living Dead.
The Contemporary Writer and Their Suicide
The Contemporary Writer and Their Suicide - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Contemporary Writer and Their Suicide write by Josefa Ros Velasco. This book was released on 2023-07-05. The Contemporary Writer and Their Suicide available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume is the continuation of the book Suicide in Modern Literature, edited by Josefa Ros Velasco. Considering the positive reception of this book, Ros Velasco launches the second part, entitled The Contemporary Writer and their Suicide. This time, leading representatives of various disciplines analyze the literary, philosophical, and biographical works of contemporary writers worldwide who attempted to commit suicide or achieved their goal, looking for covert and overt clues about their intentions in their writings. This book aims to continue shedding light on the social and structural causes that lead to suicide and on the suicidal mind, but also to show that people assiduous to writing usually reflect their intentions to commit suicide in their writings, to explain how these frequently veiled intentions can be revealed and interpreted, and to highlight the potential of artistic, philosophical, and autobiographical writing as a tool to detect suicidal ideation and prevent its consummation in vulnerable people. This book analyzes several case studies and their allusions to their contexts and the socio-structural and environmental violence and pressures they suffered, expressions of their will and agency, feelings of dislocation between the individual, reality, and existential alienation, and literary styles, writing techniques, and metaphorical language.
