The demon of noontide : ennui in Western literature /

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 Euro...

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Main Author: Kuhn, Reinhard Clifford
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1976.
Series:Princeton legacy library.
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