In addition, the original version of 1821, shorter and more direct, and other texts referring to the work have been included at the end of the volume - following the pattern of the definitive edition of his complete works. Confesiones De Un Comedor De Opio Inglés (serie Great Ideas 29) (ebook QUINCEY THOMAS DE Comprar 2.99 Sinopsis Ideas que han cambiado el mundo. This edition, by José Rafael Hernández Arias, contains the latest version of the Confessions (from 1856), corrected and expanded by De Quincey. De Quincey, Thomas (1785-1859) Ao de nacimiento: Lugar de nacimiento: Ao de fallecimiento: Categora profesional: Enlaces relacionados: Lengua: Ingls. The text, conceived as an autobiographical essay, a diary of his opium addiction, appeared in 1821 in London Magazine, and the interest and commotion it caused was such that he advised to carry out a book edition the following year.
His intention in writing the Confessions was not so much to narrate the effects of this drug as to expose its influences to a mind, his own, which he knew to be privileged, endowed with unusual faculties. Readers questions about Confesiones de un comedor de opio ingls. Opium is associated in him with the ability to dream and with an extreme intellectual sensitivity: without these, opium would have been a mere chronic, vulgar and sterile disease. But for De Quincey the opium was only a vehicle, an accident from which to get a literary advantage. However, it is paradoxical that an original character and endowed with an extraordinary sensitivity like that of Thomas De Quincey turned his addiction to opium into a determining factor in his life. Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859), one of the best prose writers in the English language, owes his universal fame to these Confessions of an English opium eater.
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