Traveling to the source of Echo. Why writers drink
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The unwashing thirst for the illusion of his power, gained for brief periods of faith in his ability to fill the emptiness of loneliness and turn the time back, the desire to forget about the failures that pursue you and a series of losses from which existence is consistent: all this is related by two addictions to create an imaginary alternative to life - Art, in particular literature, and alcoholism. British writer Olivia Lang tried to consider these addictions, these equally powerful on those who acquired them, and equally destructive dependence for them, showing on several famous examples - Ernest Hemingway, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, John Berrimen, John Chiver , Reimond Carver, - how the illusion of paradise and the painful awareness of his impossibility are equally intertwined in creativity
Author:
Author:Lang Olivia
Cover:
Cover:Soft
Category:
- Category:Arts & Photography
- Category:Politics & Social Science
- Category:Reference books
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:printing
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-91103-540-2
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