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The Existential Drinker (Hardcover)
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The Existential Drinker (Hardcover)
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Drinking to excess has been a striking problem for industrial and
post-industrial societies - who is responsible when an individual
opts for a slow suicide? The causes of such drinking have often
been blamed on genes, moral weakness, 'disease' (addiction),
hedonism, and Romantic illusion. Yet there is another reason: the
drinker may act with sincere philosophical intent, exploring the
edges of self, consciousness, will, ethics, authenticity and
finitude. Beginning with Jack London's John Barleycorn: alcoholic
memoirs the book goes on to cover novels such as Jean Rhys's Good
morning, midnight, Malcolm Lowry's Under the volcano, Charles
Jackson's The lost weekend and John O'Brien's Leaving Las Vegas,
and less familiar works such as Frederick Exley's A fan's notes,
Venedikt Yerofeev's Moscow-Petushki, and A. L. Kennedy's Paradise.
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