Confessions of Narcissus

by Sean Scully

A rumination on authority and its limitations, about what we think we know - and the spaces in between.

In Confessions of Narcissus, Scully suggests that our demand for narrative coherence is one of the things that makes our lives so difficult to bear, that when William Hazlitt declared, "It is we who are Hamlet", he was telling us something about Shakespeare's universality that is worth considering: Hamlet does not just give voice...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1628974532
• ISBN13: 9781628974539
• Release Date: March 2023
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.3"