The Danger to be Sane: Creativity and the Eccentric Mind - Couverture rigide

Montero, Rosa

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1787706206 ISBN 13 : 9781787706200

Editeur : Europa Compass, 2026

Synopsis

"An ebullient examination of madness, mortality, suicide... Montero finds that ‘deviance’ is often just a more truthful account of normal human behavior." ―Chris Kraus

A dazzling journey into the eccentric, troubled, and luminous minds that shaped literature.

In this bold, personal, and deeply researched blend of memoir, essay, literary analysis, psychological reflection, and intellectual sleuth story, Montero draws on psychology, neuroscience, creative literature, and the testimonies and biographies of authors and artists to weave a fascinating narrative on the connection between creativity and mental instability.

With intelligence, generosity, and narrative élan, Montero brings to life figures such as Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Marcel Proust, Joseph Conrad, and Doris Lessing, painting a fresco of the ways in which the brain works, its quirks and dark corners. She breaks down the forces that influence creativity and miraculously reassembles them before the reader’s eyes over three hundred gripping pages.

Like a masterfully plotted detective story, each clue leads readers one step closer to new definitions of both the creative act and of what is and is not “normal.” Blending intimate memoir with wide-ranging cultural history, The Danger to Be Sane is a moving and inspirational homage to minds and lives that are outside of the mean.

’Twas a Divine Insanity― 
The Danger to be Sane 
From Emily Dickinson, Poem 593 

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Rosa Montero is an acclaimed novelist and award-winning journalist. A native of Madrid and the daughter of a professional bullfighter, Montero published her first novel at age twenty-eight and has gone on to publish twenty-six books. She has won Spain's top book award, the Qué Leer Prize, twice, as well as the National Prize for Literature. Her works have been translated into over twenty languages.  

Lindsey Ford is a translator from Spanish to English, based in Hong Kong and London. She has a BA in English and Spanish from the University of Oxford, and a Diploma in Translation from the Chartered Institute of Linguists. She was runner up in the inaugural Harvill Secker Young Translators’ Prize.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Europa Compass
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1787706206
• ISBN 13: 9781787706200
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible