Cigaretttes Are Sublime

Klein, Richard; Richard Klein

ISBN 10: 0822316412 / ISBN 13: 9780822316411

Published by Duke University Press, Durham and London, 1993

About this Item

210 pp. Solidly bound copy with clean text and minimal use. Minimal external wear.

Seller Inventory # 1ivFh0020

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cigaretttes Are Sublime
• Publisher: Duke University Press, Durham and London
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0822316412
• ISBN 13: 9780822316411
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Paperback Edition
• Condition: Like New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research
  • Social Studies & Sciences, Sociology, Social Work

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.