Cigarettes Are Sublime by Richard Klein

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Cigarettes Are Sublime by Richard Klein

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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.

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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 9780822316411
ISBN 10 0822316412
Title Cigarettes Are Sublime
Author Richard Klein
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Duke University Press
Year published 1995-01-20
Number of pages 232
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.