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Duke University Press
December 1993
On Sale: December 1, 1993
232 pages
ISBN: 0822316412
EAN: 9780822316411
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Non-Fiction
Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good.
With its origins in the author’s urgent desire to stop
smoking, Cigarettes Are Sublime offers a provocative look at
the literary, philosophical, and cultural history of
smoking. Richard Klein focuses on the dark beauty, negative
pleasures, and exacting benefits attached to tobacco use and
to cigarettes in particular. His appreciation of paradox and
playful use of hyperbole lead the way on this aptly
ambivalent romp through the cigarette in war, movies (the
"Humphrey Bogart cigarette"), literature, poetry, and the
reflections of Sartre to show that cigarettes are a mixed
blessing, precisely sublime.
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