Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism
Editorial PENGUIN BOOKS
Mainland Spain
- Publisher PENGUIN BOOKS
- ISBN13 9780141195803
- ISBN10 0141195800
- Type BOOK
- Pages 80
- Collection Mini-Modern Classics #
- Published 2011
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
Subjects
English LiteratureShort Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism
Editorial PENGUIN BOOKS
Mainland Spain
Book details
'...I stare at the coffee I poured myself, and I think: caffeine is a poison that stimulates the heart. There are plenty of instances of people killing themselves with coffee, hundreds and thousands of them. Caffeine is a deadly poison, maybe almost as deadly as morphine. Why didn't it ever occur to me before: coffee is my friend!'
Drawing on Hans Fallada's own history of addiction, these two stories and are written with a remarkable, tough, spartan clarity. As a man desperately, haplessly tries to get enough morphine to make it through the day and a drunk embezzler struggles to get himself arrested, they are at one second crushing, the next darkly comic.
This book includes A Short Treatise on the Joys of Morphinism and Three Years of Life.