Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia
| Series | European Perspectives, Columbia Centennial Classic |
| Translated by | Leon S. Roudiez |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press |
| Copyright Holder | Éditions Gallimard |
| Copyright Holder (Translation) | Columbia University Press |
| Cover Art by | Hans Holbein the Younger |
| About/Subject | Depression, Suicide, Gérard de Nerval, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Marguerite Duras |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | New York, New York; Oxford, England |
| Copyright | 1989 |
| Copyright | 1987 |
| Pages / Font | 300 pages |
| ISBN | 978-0-231-06707-2 |
| Barcode | 9 780231 067072 > |
| Barcode | 9780231067072> |
| Library of Congress Call Number | RC537.K7513 1980 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification Number | 616.85'27—dc20 |
| Library of Congress Classification Number | 89-7230 |
| Chapters | 1. Psychoanalysis—A Counterdepressant - 1 2. Life and Death of Speech - 31 3. Illustration of Feminine Depression - 69 Cannibalistic Solitude - 71 To Kill or to Kill Oneself: The Enacted Wrongdoing - 80 A Virgin Mother - 87 4. Beauty: The Depressive's Other Realm - 95 5. Holbein's Dead Christ - 105 6. Gérard de Nerval, the Disinherited Poet - 139 7. Dostoyevsky, the Writing of Suffering, and Forgiveness - 173 8. The Malady of Grief: Duras - 219 Notes - 261 Index - 285 |
| Notes | "Jacket illustration: detail from Hans Holbein the Younger, 'Portrait of the Artist's Wife, Elsbeth Binzenstock, and Her Two Children Philip and Catherine' (Oeffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel)." "'Soleil Noir: Dépression et mélancolie,' © Editions Gallimard 1987; English translation copyright © Columbia University Press 1989" "Printed in U.S.A." |
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