Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - Couverture souple

De Quincey, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1546503633 ISBN 13 : 9781546503637

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 1821

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

In this remarkable autobiography, Thomas De Quincey hauntingly describes the surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings he took through London—and the nightmares, despair, and paranoia to which he became prey—under the influence of the then-legal painkiller laudanum. Forging a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, Confessions seamlessly weaves the effects of drugs and the nature of dreams, memory, and imagination. First published in 1821, it paved the way for later generations of literary drug users, from Baudelaire to Burroughs, and anticipated psychoanalysis with its insights into the subconscious.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Thomas Penson De Quincey (15 August 1785 – 8 December 1859) was an English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 1821
• ISBN 10: 1546503633
• ISBN 13: 9781546503637
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 66