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The Demon of Noontide: Ennui in Western Literature

The Demon of Noontide: Ennui in Western Literature

Kuhn, Reinhard Clifford

Hardcover

Series: Princeton Legacy Library, Book 5087

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0691654492
ISBN13: 9780691654492
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Mar 21 2017
Pages: 416
Weight: 1.66
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Kierkegaard claimed that the gods created man because they were bored, and Baudelaire predicted that the delicate monster of boredom would one day swallow up the whole world in an immense yawn. Between these two statements lies the undefined expanse of ennui, whose manifestations in European literature form the fascinating subject of this book. Reinhard Kuhn's aim is to define the demon of noontide, to learn how writers through the ages have treated it, and to discover what it indicates about the nature of the creative act.

Originally published in 1976.

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