EAN: 9781785039805

HOW TO LIVE WHAT TO DO - JOSH COHEN TASCHENBUCH

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 provide escapism and entertainment  but it
also holds a mirror up to our lives to show us aspects of ourselves we may not have seen or
understood. From jealousy to grief  fierce love to deep hatred  our inner lives become both
stranger and more familiar when we explore them through fiction. Josh Cohen  a psychoanalyst
and Professor of Modern Literary Theory  delves deep into the inner lives of the most memorable
and vivid characters in literature. His analysis of figures such as Jay Gatsby and Mrs Dalloway
offers insights into the greatest questions about the human experience  ones that we can all
learn from. He walks us through the different stages of existence  from childhood to old age 
showing that literature is much more than a refuge from the banality and rigour of everyday
life ¿ through the experiences of its characters  it can show us ways to be wiser  more open
and more self-aware.

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