{"product_id":"the-diary-of-an-unemployed-gentleman-9781105569500","title":"The Diary of an Unemployed Gentleman","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Elias Sassoon\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Lulu.com\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Lulu.com\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Psychopathology - Depression\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat do we have? Nonfiction? Fiction? Philosophy? Who cares! We do have a man of the 20th and 21st centuries attempting to jot down his daily thoughts. We have a mental diary, or, the diary of somebody who is mental; here, here thoughts of the mental (case), rather than thoughts of the actions of the mental (case). It's a diary of a neurotic, and the neurotic is one precisely because he's not a man of action, not a person of physicality, just one whose main exercise is conjecture, speculation, and obsessive questioning. He, I, is a sportsman of his own mind. Writing about the mental grind of being unemployed in an employed world. The job, having it, a must. The means of earning the paycheck; the means of socialization in group rituals. Unemployed and presently stuck in the suburbs existing beyond time - deserted streets, distant shopping malls, emptied homes. The individual isolated and growing out of touch and out of his mind; the mind retreating into the distant past and future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lulu.com","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46866666389655,"sku":"9781105569500","price":747.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781105569500.webp?v=1769982949","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-diary-of-an-unemployed-gentleman-9781105569500","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}