Cigarettes are Sublime by Richard Klein

Cigarettes are Sublime by Richard Klein

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.

Richard Klein is Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics. He quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since.

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ISBN 13	9780822314011
ISBN 10	0822314010
Title	Cigarettes are Sublime
Author	Richard Klein
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Duke University Press
Year published	1993-11-23
Number of pages	232
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