The Confessions Of An English Opium Eater

Видавництво: Wordsworth

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In the first part of this famous work, published in 1821 but then revised and expanded in 1856, De Quincey vividly describes a number of experiences during his дитинства which he implies laid the foundations for his life of later helpless drug addiction.

The second part consists of his remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of opium, ostensibly offered as a muted apology for the course his life had taken but often reading like a celebration of it.

The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater is thus both a classic of English autobiographical writing - the prose equivalent, in its own time of Wordsworth's The Prelude or Growth of a Poet's Mind - and at the same time a crucial text in the long history of the Western world's ambivalent relationship with hard drugs.