Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism - Couverture souple

Fallada, Hans

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0141195800 ISBN 13 : 9780141195803

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2011

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

'...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.

Biographie 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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0141195800
• ISBN 13: 9780141195803
• Reliure: Poche
• Nombre de pages: 80