Nicotine

Gregor Hens, Jen Calleja, Jen Calleja

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English

Fitzcarraldo Editions
04 November 2015

Memoirs; Literary essays; Giving up smoking

Written with the passion of an obsessive, Nicotine addresses a life of addiction, from the epiphany of the first drag to the perennial last last cigarette. Reflecting on his experiences as a smoker from a young age, Gregor Hens investigates the irreversible effects of nicotine on thought and patterns of behaviours. He extends the conversation with other smokers to meditations on Mark Twain and Italo Svevo, the nature of habit, the validity of hypnosis, and the most insignificant city in the United States, where he lived for far too long. With comic insight and meticulous precision, Hens deconstructs every facet of the dependency and offers a brilliant disquisition on the psychopathology of addiction.

By: Gregor Hens
Translated by: Jen Calleja, Jen Calleja
Imprint: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 125mm,
ISBN: 9781910695074
ISBN 10: 1910695076
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 04 November 2015
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gregor Hens, born in 1965, is a German writer and translator. He has notably translated Will Self, Jonathan Lethem andGeorge Packer into German.

Reviews for Nicotine

'Every cigarette I've ever smoked now seems, in retrospect, like little more than preparation for this remarkable essay - though nothing in me could have anticipated its exquisitely surprising brilliance, the precision and play of its intellect. It's about smoking, sure, but it's also a luminous and nuanced exploration of how we're constituted by our obsessions, how our memories arrange themselves inside of us, and how - or if - we control our own lives.' - Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams