Ebook {Epub PDF} The Savage God: A Study of Suicide by Al Álvarez

The Savage God: A Study of Suicide by Al Álvarez The Savage God is the first study to attemp the historical, literary, philosophical dimensions of the mystery of suicide It is brilliant, touching, and oddly passionate An ambitious, exhaustive exploration into the nature of the self-destructive.  · In The Savage God, Al Álvarez examines suicide through a variety of lenses: personal, historical, psychiatric, philosophical, cultural, and literary. The book contains a great deal of thought-provoking material on a notoriously difficult subject.4/5. Using the untimely death of the poet and friend, Sylvia Plath, as a point of departure, Al Alvarez confronts the controversial and often taboo area of human behaviour: suicide. "The Savage God" explores the cultural attitudes, theories, truths and fallacies surrounding suicide and refracts them through the windows of philosophy, art and literature: following the black thread leading from Dante, through Donne, /5(77).

Buy The Savage God: A Study of Suicide New by Alvarez, Al (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. The Savage God explores the cultural attitudes, theories, truths and fallacies surrounding suicide and refracts them through the windows of philosophy, art and literature: following the black thread leading from Dante, through Donne, Chatterton and the Romantic Agony, to Dada and Pavese. Entwined within this sensitive study is the author's. The Savage God: A Study of Suicide. The Savage God.: Alfred Alvarez. Penguin Books, - Literature - pages. 4 Reviews. Using the untimely death of the poet and friend, Sylvia Plath, as a point of departure, Al Alvarez confronts the controversial and often taboo area of human behaviour: suicide. The Savage God explores the cultural.

The Savage God: A Study of Suicide book by Al Álvarez The Savage God: A Study of Suicide A. Alvarez "To write a beautiful book about suicide to transform the subject into something beautiful—this is the forbidding task that A. Alvarez set for himself The Savage God: A Study of Suicide | A. Alvarez | download. Within this dramatic framework, Alvarez launches his enquiry into the final taboo of human behavior, and traces changing attitudes towards suicide from the perspective of literature. He follows the black thread leading from Dante through Donne and the romantic agony, to the Savage God at the heart of modern literature. "Suicide," writes the notes English poet and critic A. Alvarez, "has permeated Western culture like a dye that cannot be washed out." Although the aims of this compelling, compassionate work are broadly cultural and literary, the narrative is rooted in personal experience: it begins with a long memoir of Sylvia Plath, and ends with an account of the author's own suicide attempt.