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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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1976.
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Series: | Princeton legacy library.
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Online Access: | CONNECT |