| The Diary of an Unemployed Gentleman Contributor(s): Sassoon, Elias (Author) |
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ISBN: 1105569500 ISBN-13: 9781105569500 Publisher: Lulu.com OUR PRICE: $9.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychopathology - Depression - Self-help |
| Physical Information: 0.37" H x 6" W x 9" (0.54 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What do we have? Nonfiction? Fiction? Philosophy? Who cares We do have a man of the 20th and 21st centuries attempting to jot down his daily thoughts. We have a mental diary, or, the diary of somebody who is mental; here, here thoughts of the mental (case), rather than thoughts of the actions of the mental (case). It's a diary of a neurotic, and the neurotic is one precisely because he's not a man of action, not a person of physicality, just one whose main exercise is conjecture, speculation, and obsessive questioning. He, I, is a sportsman of his own mind. Writing about the mental grind of being unemployed in an employed world. The job, having it, a must. The means of earning the paycheck; the means of socialization in group rituals. Unemployed and presently stuck in the suburbs existing beyond time - deserted streets, distant shopping malls, emptied homes. The individual isolated and growing out of touch and out of his mind; the mind retreating into the distant past and future. |