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Confessions of an English Opium Eater

3.31  ·  Rating details ·  8,186 ratings  ·  616 reviews
Confessions is a remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of worshipping at the 'Church of Opium'. Thomas De Quincey consumed daily large quantities of laudanum (at the time a legal painkiller), and this autobiography of addiction hauntingly describes his surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings through London, along with the nightmares, despair and para ...more
Paperback, 352 pages
Published March 27th 2003 by Penguin Classics (first published 1821)
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Nick White Parts of his life story are included. It focuses on his experiences under opium and his motivations for taking opium.

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Andrei Tamaş
Oct 29, 2014 rated it really liked it
Deși se vede clar tentativa de roman, cartea are mai mult nuanțe științifice. Nu se referă doar la opium și la urmările sale medicale, ci și psihologice și -respectiv- sociale. Încadrarea în timp își spune și ea cuvântul. Cartea a fost scrisă când "cele două războaie ale opiului" erau în plinătatea lor. Anglia descoperise "secretul Chinei" și se luase cu dansa la harță. Nu vreau să-mi imaginez farmecul dat de această substanță dacă două dintre puterile lumii moderne au dus două mari războaie pen ...more
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Stella Popa
Thomas de Quincey
"Confesiunile unui opioman englez"
Roman autobiografic, capabil să încurce ițele oricărui. Istorie care nu tolerează nici un fel de intruziune, deranj sau prejudecată.
Încercam să îmi imaginez procesul de scriere al acestei cărți: liniște, semiîntuneric, lumină galbenă venită dintr-un colț și el, Thomas, înarmat cu peniță și cerneală. Ce stări mi-a transmis cartea asta, de la agonie până la catatonie!
Recunosc, am fost atrasă de titlu, sunt la prima mea întâlnire cu acest autor, ia
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Maria Esseh
Feb 05, 2017 rated it it was ok
For the love of God...Nu mi s-a mai întâmplat de mult timp să nu pot să termin o carte. Nu am mai citit în engleză de mult timp și poate că o carte scrisă acum două secole nu a fost alegerea potrivită. Cartea este greoaie, cel puțin mie așa mi s-a părut. Face multe referiri la literatura vremii, la operele dramaturgilor și marilor scriitori britanici. Sesiunea nu cred că a fost alegerea potrivită pentru a citit această carte, cu siguranță nu am fost pe aceiași lungime de undă. Am citit puțin pes ...more
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