The World at My Back Melle Thomas
The World at My Back Melle Thomas "Books written out of great emotional distress are ... Thomas Melle's [The World at My Back] is great literature because he pulls it off without a single false…
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The World at My Back Melle Thomas
"Books written out of great emotional distress are ... Thomas Melle's [The World at My Back] is great literature because he pulls it off without a single false note." --Deutschlandfunk (German National Radio)A FINALIST FOR THE GERMAN BOOK PRIZE - TRANSLATED INTO EIGHTEEN LANGUAGESAddicted to culture, author Thomas Melle has built up an impressive personal library. rarely great literature.
But in the middle of a violent dissociative episode, when they become ballast to his increasingly manic self, he disperses almost overnight what had taken decades to gather. His heart is in these books, and he loves to feel them at his back, their promise and challenge, as he writes. Nor is this all he loses: descending further into an incomprehensible madness, he loses friendships and his career as a novelist and celebrated