Nervous System: Or Losing My Mind in Literature

Jensen, Jan Lars

ISBN 10: 1551926873 / ISBN 13: 9781551926872

Published by Raincoast Books, Vancouver, BC, 2004

About this Item

SIGNED BY JAN LARS JENSEN on title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; A few months after selling his novel to a major publisher, Jensen woke in a psych ward bed, only to find the ideas that had inspired him now roamed through waking nightmares. And just as literature prompted Jensen's slide into psychosis, so did it help him rebuild and recover. This book recounts his extraordinary experience. Gripping and unsettling, darkly humorous and deeply moving, this is a memoir of a novelist who almost let his imagination get the best of him.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nervous System: Or Losing My Mind in Literature
• Publisher: Raincoast Books, Vancouver, BC
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551926873
• ISBN 13: 9781551926872
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

Within the literature of madness, there has never been a memoir as wrenching and mordantly humorous as Jan Lars Jensen’s Nervous System. A quiet librarian who struck publishing gold with his first novel, Jensen felt as if something had come unhinged in his mind. The rush of ideas and language felt like losing, willy-nilly, a chunk of his mental stability. But true madness didn’t come until the countdown to his book’s release into the world.