''Cigarettes are Sublime'' is a 1994 book by Richard Klein published by Duke University Press. The author wrote it as therapy when he quit smoking. Klein states in the preface that the "book aims to be simultaneously a piece of literary criticism, an analysis of popular culture, a political harangue, a theoretical exercise, and an ode to cigarettes." The decisive encounter for the author, in terms of coming to terms with his own cigarette habit, came through reading the novel ''

Zeno's Conscience ''Zeno's Conscience'' ( ) is a novel by Italian writer Italo Svevo. The main character is Zeno Cosini, and the book is the fictional character's memoirs that he keeps because his psychoanalyst recommended to do so in order to overcome his illnes ...

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Italo Svevo Aron Hector Schmitz (19 December 186113 September 1928), better known by the pseudonym Italo Svevo (), was an Italian and Austro-Hungarian writer, businessman, novelist, playwright, and short story writer. A close friend of Irish novelist and ...

. Cigarettes are Sublime, Picador, 1995

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