Nicotine - Couverture souple

Hens, Gregor

 
9781910695074: Nicotine
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1910695076 ISBN 13 : 9781910695074
Editeur : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2015

Synopsis

Written with the passion of an obsessive, Nicotine addresses a life of addiction, from the epiphany of the first drag to the perennial last last cigarette. Reflecting on his experiences as a smoker from a young age, Gregor Hens investigates the irreversible effects of nicotine on thought and patterns of behaviours. He extends the conversation with other smokers to meditations on Mark Twain and Italo Svevo, the nature of habit, the validity of hypnosis, and the most insignificant city in the United States, where he lived for far too long. With comic insight and meticulous precision, Hens deconstructs every facet of the dependency and offers a brilliant disquisition on the psychopathology of addiction.

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À propos des auteurs

Gregor Hens is a German writer of fiction and creative nonfiction, and a literary translator. He received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley and taught linguistics in the US for more than twenty years. He was a writer in residence at Magdalene College in Cambridge and has been shortlisted, with Rawi Hage, for the International Literature Prize (Berlin). He has notably translated Will Self and Kurt Vonnegut into German. Hens currently teaches Urban Studies and Creative Writing at the Free University in Berlin. His memoir Nicotine was published by Fitzcarraldo Editions in 2015.



Jen Calleja has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for her translations of German-language literature. Her own books include the translator memoir Fair (Prototype), Vehicle: a verse novel (Prototype), Goblinhood: Goblin as a Mode (Rough Trade Books) and Dust Sucker (Makina Books). She is co-publisher at Praspar Press, which is dedicated to Maltese literature in English and English translation.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Written with the passion of an obsessive, Nicotine addresses a life of addiction, from the epiphany of the first drag to the perennial last last cigarette. Reflecting on his experiences as a smoker from a young age, Gregor Hens investigates the irreversible effects of nicotine on thought and patterns of behaviours. He extends the conversation with other smokers to meditations on Mark Twain and Italo Svevo, the nature of habit, the validity of hypnosis, and the most insignificant city in the United States, where he lived for far too long. With comic insight and meticulous precision, Hens deconstructs every facet of the dependency and offers a brilliant disquisition on the psychopathology of addiction.

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Éditeur
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1910695076
ISBN 13 
9781910695074
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
168
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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