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Journey to the Source of Echoes: Why Writers Drink

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Journey to the Source of Echoes: Why Writers Drink
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The irresistible thirst for the illusion of one's own power, the belief acquired for short periods in one's ability to fill the void of loneliness and turn back time, the desire to forget the failures that haunt you and the series of losses that make up existence: all this is what two addictions to the creation of an imaginary alternative to life have in common - art, in particular literature, and alcoholism. The British writer Olivia Lang has attempted to examine these addictions, these equally powerful over those who have acquired them and equally destructive for them dependencies on each other, showing through several famous examples - Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, Raymond Carver - how the equally necessary illusion of paradise and the painful awareness of its impossibility are intertwined in creativity.
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