Articles liés à The Danger to Be Sane: Creativity and the Eccentric...

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

Montero, Rosa

 
9798889661863: The Danger to Be Sane: Creativity and the Eccentric Mind
Couverture rigide
ISBN 13 : 9798889661863
Editeur : Europa Editions, 2026

Synopsis

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


Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos des auteurs

Rosa Montero is a Spanish writer. A longtime journalist for El País since 1976, she is also the author of more than twenty novels and essay collections, many translated into multiple languages. The Danger to Be Sane is her American debut.



Lindsey Ford is a Spanish to English translator based in Hong Kong and London.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Europa Editions
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 13 
9798889661863
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible