The Journal of a Disappointed Man - Softcover

Barbellion, W. N. P.; Barbellion, Wilhelm Nero Pilate

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1150165782 ISBN 13: 9781150165788

Publisher: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

Synopsis

Excerpt: ... and held me in a soft warm embrace. I shut my eyes and whistled the saccharine melody for solo violin in Chopin's Funeral March. I wanted the moment prolonged for hours. Ill-health chases the soul out of a man. He becomes a body, purely physical. November 29. This evening she promised to be my wife after a long silent ramble together thro' dark London squares and streets! I am beside myself! December 6. I know now

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Review:

His work has permanent value -- Arnold Bennett Letter to Barbellion's widow Among the most moving diaries ever created -- Ronald Blythe Each Returning Day: The Pleasure of Diaries A furious, sometimes ecstatic, volatile little book -- William Atkins Guardian His is the greatest diary a man has written -- Thomas Mallon A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries As great in its own right as anything which James Joyce was to write -- James Mildren Western Morning News

From the Back Cover:

'Yes, I am dead. I killed myself off at the end of my book, because it was high time'

The young naturalist W. N. P. Barbellion described his furious, funny and tragic diary as 'a study in the nude'. Begun when he was a precocious teenager discovering the natural world, it turns into a remarkably candid account of battling Multiple Sclerosis in his twenties. By turns joyful and despairing, self-lacerating and shockingly witty, The Journal of a Disappointed Man combines a passionate love of life with a clear-eyed awareness of death. This edition includes H. G. Wells's original introduction, and Barbellion's 'The Last Diary', written between submitting his journal for publication and his death in 1919.

'Among the most moving diaries ever created' Ronald Blythe

'If I had a friend who found life tedious, who was maybe even suicidal, and I had the power to make him or her read one book, it would be the soul-stirring diary of Wilhelm Nero Pilate Barbellion' Noel Perrin

About this edition

• Publisher: RareBooksClub.com
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1150165782
• ISBN 13: 9781150165788
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100