The Demon of Noontide: Ennui in Western Literature new-arrivals-021021 To this end

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The Demon of Noontide: Ennui in Western Literature new-arrivals-021021 To this endAuthor: Reinhard Kuhn Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1976 Condition: Hardcover with dust jacket, some wear and tear to dust jacket, annotations in pencil throughout, otherwise clean Kierkegaard claimed that the gods created man because they were bored, and Baudelaire predicted that the "delicate monster" of boredom would one day swallow up the whole world in an immense yawn. Between these two statements lies the undefined expanse of ennui,