The Savage God: A Study of SuicideW. W. Norton & Company, 1990 - 320 страници "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. |
Съдържание
Fallacies | 99 |
Theories | 113 |
Feelings | 143 |
Suicide and Literature | 163 |
Dante and the Middle Ages | 167 |
John Donne and the Renaissance | 173 |
William Cowper Thomas Chatterton and the Age of Reason | 193 |
The Romantic Agony | 223 |
Tomorrows Zero The Transition to the Twentieth Century | 235 |
Dada Suicide as an Art | 244 |
The Savage God | 257 |
Epilogue Letting Go | 287 |
Notes | 309 |
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