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Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism - Couverture souple

Fallada, Hans

 
9780141195803: Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0141195800 ISBN 13 : 9780141195803
Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2011

Synopsis

'...I stare at the coffee I poured myself, and I think: caffeine is a poison that stimulates the heart. There are plenty of instances of people killing themselves with coffee, hundreds and thousands of them. Caffeine is a deadly poison, maybe almost as deadly as morphine. Why didn't it ever occur to me before: coffee is my friend!'

Drawing on Hans Fallada's own history of addiction, these two stories and are written with a remarkable, tough, spartan clarity. As a man desperately, haplessly tries to get enough morphine to make it through the day and a drunk embezzler struggles to get himself arrested, they are at one second crushing, the next darkly comic.

This book includes A Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism and Three Years of Life.

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À propos de l'auteur

Hans Fallada was one of the best-known German writers of the twentieth century. Born on 21 July 1893 in Greifswald as Rudolf Wilhelm Adolf Ditzen, he took his pen name from a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. His most famous works include the novels Alone in Berlin, Little Man, What Now? and The Drinker. Fallada died from an overdose of morphine on 5 February 1947 in Berlin.

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Éditeur
Penguin Classics
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0141195800
ISBN 13 
9780141195803
Reliure
Poche
Nombre de pages
80
Coordonnées du fabricant
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