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Drawing on Hans Fallada's own history of addiction, these two stories are written with a remarkable, tough, spartan clarity. As a man desperately, haplessly tries to get enough morphine to make it through the day and a drunk embezzler struggles to get himself arrested, they are at one second crushing, the next darkly comic.
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A short treatise on the joys of morphinism ; [fiction], Hans Fallada
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- Released
- 2011
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- Title
- A short treatise on the joys of morphinism ; [fiction]
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Hans Fallada
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Released
- 2011
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0141195800
- ISBN13
- 9780141195803
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Psychological Topics, Short Stories, Autobiographies & Memoirs, German Literature, Germany, Stories, Berlin, Marriage, Drugs, Autobiographical Novels, Drug Addicts, Interwar Period
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- Drawing on Hans Fallada's own history of addiction, these two stories are written with a remarkable, tough, spartan clarity. As a man desperately, haplessly tries to get enough morphine to make it through the day and a drunk embezzler struggles to get himself arrested, they are at one second crushing, the next darkly comic.