Savage God : A Study of Suicide

Name: Savage God : A Study of Suicide
Brand: W. W. Norton & Company
SKU: 0393306577
Price: 1938 INR
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ISBN: 9780393306576

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01 May, 1990

By A Alvarez (author)

"Suicide, " writes the noted English poet and critic A. Alvarez, "has permeated Western culture like a dye that cannot be washed out." Although the aims of...

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ISBN-10:

0393306577

ISBN-13:

9780393306576

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Dimensions

7.39 X 5.05 X 0.74 inches

Language

English

Description

"Suicide, " writes the noted 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 book 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 sucide attempt. Within this dramatic framework, Alvarez launched his enquiry into the final taboo of human behavior, a traces changing attitues 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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ISBN-10

:0393306577

ISBN-13

:9780393306576

Publisher

:W. W. Norton & Company

Publication date

: 01 May, 1990

Editorial Reviews

The Savage God is the first study to attemp the historical, literary, philosophical dimensions of the mystery of suicide...It is brilliant, touching, and oddly passionate...An ambitious, exhaustive exploration into the nature of the self-destructive element in man.-- "Village Voice"

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Savage God : A Study of Suicide

By A Alvarez (author)

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