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Treatise on Modern Stimulants

Treatise on Modern Stimulants

Hayden, Kassy
de Balzac, Honoré
Hayden, Kassy

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ISBN10: 1939663385
ISBN13: 9781939663382
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Published: Nov 20 2018
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.40 Width: 4.30 Depth: 6.90
Language: English

A marvel of brash opinion, contemporary society, politics, and memoir. -Bookforum

Honoré de Balzac's Treatise on Modern Stimulants is a meditation on five stimulants--tea, sugar, coffee, alcohol and tobacco--by an author very conscious of the fact that his gargantuan output of work was driven by an excessive intake (his bouts of writing typically required 10 to 15 cups of coffee a day) that would ultimately shorten his life. First published in French in 1839 as an appendix to Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin's Physiology of Taste, this Treatise was at once Balzac's effort at addressing what he perceived to be an oversight in that cornerstone of gastronomic literature; a chapter toward his never-completed body of analytic studies (alongside such essays as Treatise on Elegant Living) that were to form an overarching pathology of social life; and a meditation on the impact of pleasure and excess on the body and the role they play in shaping society.

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