Description
A candid, fiercely intelligent journal of a man wrestling with ambition, illness, and the moral contradictions of his age. Across entries that move from youthful self-education toward a hard-won attempt at a scientific life, the writer’s sharp observations range over culture and religion, the pressures of war, and the complicated loyalties of friendship and desire. Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis at twenty-six, he turns inward with scandalous honesty—alternating between fury, wit, and bleak clarity as his body and plans narrow. Written in Barbellion’s distinctive, unsparing voice, this is a portrait of disappointment that becomes, paradoxically, a kind of resistance: a meditation on faith, failure, and the stubborn need to make meaning when the future won’t cooperate.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Books, Limited
Published Jan 1, 2017
400 pages
ISBN: 9780241297698
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Details
First Published
1919
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Journal of a Disappointed Man by W.N.P. Barbellion.