The Diary Of An Unemployed Gentleman: : A NOVEL That Isn't Contributor(s): Sassoon, Elias (Author) |
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ISBN: 1470155567 ISBN-13: 9781470155568 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $7.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Psychopathology - Depression |
Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.48 lbs) 158 pages |
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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. |