Parámetros
- 320 páginas
- 12 horas de lectura
Más información sobre el libro
"Suicide," writes the notes English poet and critic A. Alvarez, "has permeated Western culture like a dye that cannot be washed out." Although the aims of this compelling, compassionate work are broadly cultural and literary, the narrative is rooted in personal experience: it begins with a long memoir of Sylvia Plath, and ends with an account of the author's own suicide attempt. Within this dramatic framework, Alvarez launches his enquiry into the final taboo of human behavior, and traces changing attitudes towards suicide from the perspective of literature. He follows the black thread leading from Dante through Donne and the romantic agony, to the Savage God at the heart of modern literature.
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The Savage God, Alfred Alvarez
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- Publicado en
- 1974
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- Título
- The Savage God
- Subtítulo
- A Study of Suicide
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- Alfred Alvarez
- Editorial
- Penguin Books
- Publicado en
- 1974
- Formato
- Tapa blanda
- Páginas
- 320
- ISBN10
- 0140037470
- ISBN13
- 9780140037470
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Ciencias sociales, Temas psicológicos, Temática filosófica, Ciencia, Sociología, Literatura Británica, Siglo XX, Muerte, Salud mental, Psicoanálisis, Suicidio, Depresión, Poetas y Poetisas
- Título original
- The savage god, a study of suicide
- Calificación
- 4 de 5
- Descripción
- "Suicide," writes the notes English poet and critic A. Alvarez, "has permeated Western culture like a dye that cannot be washed out." Although the aims of this compelling, compassionate work are broadly cultural and literary, the narrative is rooted in personal experience: it begins with a long memoir of Sylvia Plath, and ends with an account of the author's own suicide attempt. Within this dramatic framework, Alvarez launches his enquiry into the final taboo of human behavior, and traces changing attitudes towards suicide from the perspective of literature. He follows the black thread leading from Dante through Donne and the romantic agony, to the Savage God at the heart of modern literature.