The Dedalus Book of Literary Suicides: Dead Letters

Writers have been killing themselves for centuries. From Petronius in ancient Rome to the 20th Century Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, writers, more than any other kind of artist, have taken their own lives in an extraordinary number of ways. With bullets, poison, drugs and swords, poets, playwrights, novelists and philosophers have sent themselves off into the big sleep. Others, one step shy of that last exit, have made great literature about the urge to self-destruction.

Author: Gary Lachman
Publisher: Dedalus
Published: 08/01/2009
Pages: 321
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 7.70h x 4.90w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781903517666
ISBN10: 1903517664
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- Literary Criticism | Books & Reading