Dedalus Book of Literary Suicides, The: Dead Letters (Paperback)

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. For the first time, Gary Lachman investigates the many links between self-death and the written word, bringing together an unusual gallery of literary greats and a host of other fatal characters. Typically for Dedalus, the covers gorgeous. Sasha Selavie in QX International Dead Letters ultimately proves to be at once stimulating and thought-provoking and the section devoted to various suicidal writings is most diverting. Peter Burton in One80 Reviews

General

Imprint:	Dedalus
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2008
First published:	August 2009
Authors:	Gary Lachman
Dimensions:	198 x 129 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	350
ISBN-13:	978-1-903517-66-6
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN:	1-903517-66-4
Barcode:	9781903517666

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