The Savage God : A Study of Suicide Alpha tragedy strikes fifteen-year-old Laila

tragedy strikes fifteen-year-old Laila

Then his brother is murdered in San Diego and all the signs point to Reeve heading towards the same fate

and after Auschwitz in luminous

Dante Scott still has nightmares about the death of his family

In the summer of 1944

The Savage God : A Study of Suicide Alpha tragedy strikes fifteen-year-old LailaUsing the untimely death of the poet and friend, Sylvia Plath, as a point of departure, Al Alvarez confronts the controversial and often taboo area of human suicide. "The Savage God" explores the cultural attitudes, theories, truths and fallacies surrounding suicide and refracts them through the windows of philosophy, art and following the black thread leading from Dante, through Donne, Chatterton and the Romantic Agony, to Dada and Pavese. Entwined