Briefing for a Descent into Hell

Lessing, Doris

ISBN 10: 0394421981 / ISBN 13: 9780394421988

Published by Knopf (edition First Edition), 1971

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Briefing for a Descent into Hell

Publisher: Knopf (edition First Edition)

Publication Date: 1971

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Edition: First Edition.

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Synopsis:

Depicts a professor's fantastic adventure fantasies while undergoing a mental breakdown in a hospital

Review:

"Touching and beautiful."
--"The New York Review of Books"
"A brilliant and untamed image of the possibilities that may still constitute man's destiny."
--"Time"
"An excursion into private consciousness . . . ending up in the darkest reaches of the unconscious at its most primitive."
--"The Washington Post Book World"

"Touching and beautiful."
"The New York Review of Books"
"A brilliant and untamed image of the possibilities that may still constitute man's destiny."
"Time"
"An excursion into private consciousness . . . ending up in the darkest reaches of the unconscious at its most primitive."
"The Washington Post Book World""

"Touching and beautiful."
--The New York Review of Books
"A brilliant and untamed image of the possibilities that may still constitute man's destiny."
--Time
"An excursion into private consciousness . . . ending up in the darkest reaches of the unconscious at its most primitive."
--The Washington Post Book World