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by Maura Spiegel (Editor), Richard Tristman (Editor)
The best classic and contemporary writing on mortality--from Montaigne to Monty Python--to produce an essential resource for the heart and mind.
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, 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.
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
Author Biography
MAURA SPIEGEL teaches at Columbia University and Barnard College. She has recently completed a book on the history of emotions in the nineteenth century.
RICHARD TRISTMAN was a professor of literature for twenty-eight years. He is a contributor to The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and is now writing a book on the idea of indecency.
