Melancholic Joy
Subtitle: On Life Worth Living
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781350177741
Subjects: Arts
Description: "Drawing on varied examples from poetry, literature and film, including Virginia Woolf, Jack Gilbert and the films of Terrence Malick, Melancholic Joy offers an honest assessment of the human condition. It unflinchingly acknowledges the everyday frustrations and extraordinary horrors that generate despair and argues that the appropriate response to this darkness is to take up joy again, not in an attempt to ignore or dismiss evil, but rather as part of a "melancholic joy" that accepts the mystery of a world that is both beautiful and brutal"--