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The Second Life

The Second Life

Paperback

Fantasy

ISBN10: 1612277500
ISBN13: 9781612277509
Publisher: Hollywood Comics
Published: May 1 2018
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.68 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

X. B. Saintine (1978-1865) was a prolific dramatist who collaborated in more than 200 plays with Eugène Scribe and a noted figure of the Romantic Movement. The Second Life (1864) was Saintine's swan song. This collection of fictitious dreams, hallucinations and metaphysical fantasies examine the nature of dreaming from a viewpoint infused by contemporary psychological science, when the phenomena of dreams and hallucinations had begun to attract serious attention, but had not yet reduced to Freudian analyses. The Second Life is a remarkable book, as much in its self-indulgence as in its strangeness, covering a remarkably wide spectrum, while always retaining a firm moral anchorage. It is one of the finest and most ambitious 19th century extensions of the tradition of contes philosophiques.

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