The Diary Of An Unemployed Gentleman: : A NOVEL That Isn't (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781470155568)

What do we have? Nonfiction? Fiction? Philosophy? Who cares We do have a man of the 20th and 21st centuries attempting to jot down his daily thoughts. We have a mental diary, or, the diary of somebody who is mental; here, here thoughts of the mental (case), rather than thoughts of the actions of the mental (case). It's a diary of a neurotic, and the neurotic is one precisely because he's not a man of action, not a person of physicality, just one whose main exercise is conjecture, speculation, and obsessive questioning. He, I, is a sportsman of his own mind. Writing about the mental grind of being unemployed in an employed world. The job, having it, a must. The means of earning the paycheck; the means of socialization in group rituals. Unemployed and presently stuck in the suburbs existing beyond time - deserted streets, distant shopping malls, emptied homes. The individual isolated and growing out of touch and out of his mind; the mind retreating into the distant past and future.

Author: Elias Sassoon
ISBN-10: 1470155567
ISBN-13: 9781470155568
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/06/2012
Pages: 158
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.34d