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Free Excerpt From The Book (requires Adobe Reader) This book is difficult to describe: it is both prose and poetry, nonfiction and fiction, philosophy and literature. It represents an experiment -- an experimental attempt to break out of the culture of conformism and self-censorship. It contains jottings, journal entries, poems, stories, cultural reflections, and, most ambitiously, a satire on the modern world modeled after the Book of Job.Part One consists of thoughts in the style of Nietzsche, on such subjects as Christianity, philosophy, music, art, Marxism, women, and capitalism. Poems and lyrical excursions are interspersed throughout. Part Two contains, first, a short story that takes place in the mountains of modern Vietnam, and secondly, the literary satire mentioned above. Despite its great variety of content, the book has a simple message (which is also the message of history itself): we must never cease to laugh at ourselves. To take oneself seriously is to risk descending into barbarism, be it social barbarism or literary barbarism.
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Chris Wright is a student in philosophy and American history. He graduated from Wesleyan University and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Boston. This is his first book. |
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