Prozac Nation is a memoir by Elizabeth Wurtzel published in 1994. This book describes the author's experience with atypical depression, the failure of his own character and how he managed to live through a very difficult period while finishing college and working as a writer. Prozac is a trade name for fluoxetine antidepressants. Wurtzel was originally entitled I Hate Myself and I Want To Die but his editor assured him otherwise. Finally bringing Young and Depressed American subtitles: A Memoir.
Reviews are mixed. In The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani characterizes Prozac Nation as "alternately heartbreaking and funny, self-indulgent and self-conscious," comparing it to "the raw honesty of Essay Joan Didion, the irritating emotional exhibitionism of Sylvia Plath and The Dark Jar and the wry, dark humor of Bob Dylan's song. "While celebrating Wurtzel's prose style as" sparkling "and" glowing ", Kakutani thought the memoirs" would benefit greatly from some rigorous editing "and says that" the self-pity section makes readers want to shake the author, and reminds him that there's a lot worse than growing up during the 70s in New York and going to Harvard. " Weekly Publishers are equally ambivalent: "By altering the emotional and banomely solipsistic forces, [Wurtzel] books blanket the line between self-absorbing portraits and rough bids for public attention."
Writing in New York Magazine , Walter Kirn found that although Prozac Nation had "moments of beautiful truth-telling," it was "almost unbearable" and "a a single, self-absorption work. "Calling the book a" boring and poorly written story of melodramatic life from Wurtzel, warts and all (actually all warts), "Erica L. Werner asked in The Harvard Crimson , "How did this girl get the contract book in the first place? Why was she allowed to write such nonsense?" Werner also described Prozac Nation as a "disgusting exhibition," with "no purpose other than alternating for makes us bored and makes us squirm. " He said that the author "came as an annoying, solipsistic boy."
"There will be a possibility to be more sympathetic to Ms. Wurtzel if she is not so sympathetic to herself," Ken Tucker wrote in the New York Times Book Review. He observes, "The reader may begin tidying up the pages of the book in the hopeless hope that there will be some free Prozac capsules slipped inside for his own relief." Kirkus considers the book to be filled with "narcissistic pride" and concludes, "By turning disparagingly and condemning his depression, Wurtzel loses his credibility: Whether he's a boy who will not form or he needs drugs. , You do not care which one. "
This book is adapted into feature film, Prozac Nation (2001), starring Christina Ricci.
Video Prozac Nation
See also
- Peter Breggin
- Pharmacology cosmetics
- Eli Lilly and Company
- Let Them Eat Prozac (2004)
- Listening to Prozac (1993)
Maps Prozac Nation
References
External links
- Review quote, from the Penguin Group website
- Unblock me, July 2004 article in The Guardian
- Prozac Nation on IMDb
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