The Savage God : A Study of Suicide Alpha and culture punctuate stories of

and culture punctuate stories of family drama and triumph

exploring past civilizations through the objects that defined them

In the summer of 1944

In a hotel room in Bangalore

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The Savage God : A Study of Suicide Alpha and culture punctuate stories ofUsing 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