Suspiria de Profundis
A legal and readily available painkiller in the nineteenth century, laudanum was a source of both pleasure and pain for author Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859). After achieving overnight success with Confessions of an English Opium Eater, an impassioned account of his struggles with addiction, the author wrote the hypnotic prose poems of Suspiria de Profundis (Sighs from the Depths). Like Confessions, these short essays combined drug-induced visions with thought-provoking reflections on the nature of dreams, memory, and imagination. With these books, De Quincey inaugurated the genre of addiction literature, a tradition furthered by Charles Baude…
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- ISBN: 978-0-486-84456-5
- EAN: 0800759844562
- Produktnummer: 32743114
- Verlag: Dover Publications
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 96 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 511 KB
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Thomas De Quincey
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