- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Anchor Books; 1 Anchor edition (31 Dec 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0385485271
- ISBN-13: 978-0385485272
- Product Dimensions: 14 x 2.5 x 21.6 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,881,449 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The fear of death, the pain of bereavement, the art of consolation, and the custom of mourning—these are experiences with which all mortals must reckon. In The Grim Reader, editors Maura Spiegel and Richard Tristman have gathered the best classic and contemporary writing on mortality—from Montaigne to Monty Python—to produce an essential resource for the heart and mind. These idiosyncratic and always enlightening pieces are grouped into thematic parts in which a diversity of perspective on death are revealed. From death in its most personal sphere to the major issues of death in the public realm, The Grim Reader offers a fresh and unmediated encounter with mortality and the many dimensions of grief and recovery.
A compelling collection of poems, fiction, letters, historical documents, essays, and narrations from a wide variety of writers, including:
Vladimir Nabokov- John Ashbery- Samuel Beckett
Adam Smith- Simone de Beauvoir- Grace Paley
Giovanni Boccaccio- Bertolt Brecht- Roland Barthes
James Baldwin- Primo Levi- Anne Sexton
Luis Buñuel- Paul Monette- Jessica Mitford- Stanley Elkin
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Death In The Family?
10 Mar 2000
Format:Paperback
I bought this book out of a dark, morbid, meloncholic, curiousity. But that's just the way I am. Other people should buy this book if they are dealing with someone elses death or their own impending. It's, for the most part, a good read. Near the end it trails off, but the first few sections are amazing. The last chapter is "Hamlet: The Graveyard" so it ends well. There's Monty Python, George Orwell, Samual Clemons, Robert Luis Stephanson, John Keats, and Freud. Also about a hundred others. The Fear of Death and the fear of living after death (Someone elses) Are of the many topics addressed. I recommend it for anyone. This book of Death just might teach you how to live.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
A good read in re death, for the dying or the ghoulish
14 Feb 2001
Format:Paperback
Here you have it: The definitive literary "Many Faces of Death"-From an essay on hospice care, to a Monty Python piece on a dead parrot to a Nabokov piece on time as a prison. Anyone having to deal with death, even if only in daily contemplation (which is what I imagine most readers of the book are) and not immediately up against the dire consequences they know must eventually befall them to those who are gazing over the precipice or have a loved one who is, this book has something for everyone. Passing strange, isn't it, that reading about one's mortality tends to make one more resigned to it?-I have to admit to having a favorite here: Robert Louis Stevenson's "Aes Triplex," perhaps my favorite essay anywhere, although it's only printed in part here. It does contain one of my favorite quotes on the subject of death and mortality, "a good meal and a bottle of wine is an answer to most standard works upon the question."-It's a positive thought on not trying too hard to resolve the unresolvable.-But there are essays here for those who want to do that too.-So, here's a book for the griefstricken and the ghoul, or for those that may be both. Enjoy.
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