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- Author: Thomas De Quincey
- Publisher: OPEN ROAD MEDIA
- Year: 2016
- Pages: 120
- ISBN: 9781504033954
- ISBN-10: 1504033957
- ISBN-13: 9781504033954
- Format: ePub
- Language: English
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In this remarkable autobiography, Thomas De Quincey hauntingly describes the surreal visions & hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings he took thru London--& the nightmares, despair & paranoia to which he became prey--under the influence of the then-legal painkiller laudanum. Forging a link between artistic self-expression & addiction, Confessions seamlessly weaves the effects of drugs & the nature of dreams, memory & imagination. First published in 1821, it paved the way for later generations of literary drug users, from Baudelaire to Burroughs, & anticipated psychoanalysis with its insights into the unconscious.
- Author: Thomas De Quincey
- Publisher: OPEN ROAD MEDIA
- Year: 2016
- Pages: 120
- ISBN: 9781504033954
- ISBN-10: 1504033957
- ISBN-13: 9781504033954
- Format: ePub
- Language: English English
In this remarkable autobiography, Thomas De Quincey hauntingly describes the surreal visions & hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings he took thru London--& the nightmares, despair & paranoia to which he became prey--under the influence of the then-legal painkiller laudanum. Forging a link between artistic self-expression & addiction, Confessions seamlessly weaves the effects of drugs & the nature of dreams, memory & imagination. First published in 1821, it paved the way for later generations of literary drug users, from Baudelaire to Burroughs, & anticipated psychoanalysis with its insights into the unconscious.
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