Cigarettes Are Sublime - Softcover

Klein, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822316412 ISBN 13: 9780822316411

Verlag: Duke University Press, 1995

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Klein Richard Richard Klein

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"In "Cigarettes are Sublime," a cult classic of the literature of tobacco, Richard Klein connects the allure of cigarettes precisely to their dangers . . . ." --Hendrik Hertzberg, "New Yorker"

Reseña del editor:

Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good. With its origins in the author's urgent desire to stop smoking, Cigarettes Are Sublime offers a provocative look at the literary, philosophical, and cultural history of smoking. Richard Klein focuses on the dark beauty, negative pleasures, and exacting benefits attached to tobacco use and to cigarettes in particular. His appreciation of paradox and playful use of hyperbole lead the way on this aptly ambivalent romp through the cigarette in war, movies (the "Humphrey Bogart cigarette"), literature, poetry, and the reflections of Sartre to show that cigarettes are a mixed blessing, precisely sublime.

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• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0822316412
• ISBN 13: 9780822316411
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 230