Redefining Victory by Anthony Stevens

Redefining Victory by Anthony Stevens

A middle-aged man leaves his wife for a younger woman. or is it to 'find out who he really is'? You've heard it all before, of course - but not like this REDEFINING VICTORY takes a banal situation and transforms it into something harshly comic, strangely surreal and disconcertingly archetypal. How? By making the characters talk and think entirely in cliches - rather like robots in some future experiment in AI. But the setting is now, and everything in the novel is so familiar - the characters, the situations, the words used - that it becomes paradoxically alien, weird and even, at times, a little grotesque. Both as an entertaining satire on 'middle England' and as a tragicomic vision of the emotional, intellectual and spiritual bankruptcy of people whose language does their thinking - and their feeling - for them, REDEFINING VICTORY will make you ask: Do we all (sometimes) mistake the right phrase for the raw truth? And it's a must for anyone who loves the English language, revealing its world-beating richness in cliches, platitudes, euphemisms and hackneyed phrases. You'll be amazed at how many expressions there are that we really ought to avoid

During the past thirty years, Anthony Stevens has worked as a Jungian analyst and psychiatrist. He is a University of Oxford graduate with two degrees in psychology in addition to his medical degree. Ariadne's Clue (Princeton), Archetype: A Natural History of the Self, The Origins of Conflict, The Two-Million-Year-Old Self, Private Myths: Dreams and Dreaming, and Evolutionary Psychiatry: A New Beginning (with John Price) are among his past works.

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ISBN 13	9780995593909
ISBN 10	0995593906
Title	Redefining Victory
Author	Anthony Stevens
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	SILENOS BOOKS
Year published	2017-06-21
Number of pages	176
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