The Savage God.

“Despite the hundreds of attempts,
police terror and the concentration camps
have proved to be more or less impossible subjects
for the artist; since what happened
to them was beyond the imagination,
it was therefore also beyond art
and all those human values on which
art is traditionally based.”

~ A. Alvarez,
From “The Savage God,”
[p. 4]

About
“Night Falls Fast:
Understanding Suicide"”
By Kay Redfield Jamison

“It is difficult to comment on ‘Night Pails Fast’
without making reference to ‘The Savage God. A Study of Suicide,’
the 1971 classic by the English poet and writer
A. Alvarez ...

Both books are their author's overtly
stated effort to come to grips with a topic
that is of more than mere academic interest
to them. Indeed, it is the very fact
that each has had costly personal encounters
with suicide that lends their books
an intimate tone
and genuine sense
of credibility.”

From ~
“Journal of the American Academy
of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry”
[June, 2000]

http://www.suicidereferencelibrary.com/test4~id~670.php
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