To Die No More Edited by Kristofor Minta, Herbert Pfostl.
Alcoholism, decay, demons, disappearance, disease, crows, ghosts, loss, maggots, nothingness, orphans, silence, the void and worms are some of the topics offered in this singular artist's book. Designed to pay homage to the fairytale forest of death with parables and fragments from sources both known and long-forgotten, this riveting compendium of dark quotations, illustrated by Herbert Pfostl and James Walsh, borrows from such illustrious figures as Samuel Beckett, Herman Melville, Mozart, James Joyce, Ludwig Wittgenstein, William Shakespeare, Adolf Loos, Jorge Luis Borges, Emily Dickinson, Gustav Mahler, Friedrich Nietzsche, William Butler Yeats, Goethe, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Homer, Francis Bacon, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Joseph Conrad, W.G. Sebald, August Strindberg, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rainer Maria Rilke, William Blake, Rudyard Kipling and Walter Benjamin.
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