How to Live. What To Do. by Josh Cohen - ISBN: 9781785039805
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Fiction’s wisdom for life: love, loss, ambition, death, and understanding.

How to Live. What To Do.

How great novels help us change

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    384 pages

  • Release Date

    17 May 2022

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Summary

How reading can help us live a richer and more meaningful life, written by an eminent psychoanalyst and Professor of English Literature.

What can Alice in Wonderland teach us about childhood? Could reading Conversations with Friends guide us through first love? Does Esther Greenwood’s glittering success and subsequent collapse in The Bell Jar help us understand ambition? And, finally, what can we learn about death from Virginia Woolf?

Literature matters. Not only does it provi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781785039805
ISBN-10:1785039806
Author:Josh Cohen
Publisher:Ebury Publishing
Imprint:Ebury Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:17 May 2022
Weight:267g
Dimensions:198mm x 128mm x 23mm
About The Author

Josh Cohen

Josh Cohen is Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London and a psychoanalyst in private practice. He is the author of books and articles on modern literature, cultural theory and psychoanalysis, including How to Read- Freud, The Private Life- Why We Remain in the Dark, and Not Working.

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