The Way of All Flesh: The Romance of Ruins

by Midas Dekkers

Book Overview

A wonderfully witty, erudite, and insightful book about the way "things fall apart" -- about the inevitable ruin of everything from bodies and works of art to ideals and whole societies InThe Way of All FleshMidas Dekkers argues that things are at their most beautiful when they decay, provided they are given the chance. Old buildings are usually pulled down or restored. Aging people desperately try to act and look young, becuase novelty, youth and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374286825
• ISBN13: 9780374286828
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Meandering black humor

My only semi-negative comment about this book is that if you're a person who expects/requires an essay writer to start with a thesis, prove it through argument and then return to it (i.e. have a point) you may find this book somewhat frustrating. I however am not one of those people and found Dekkers' morbid ramblings quite entertaining. (Especially when he goes on about rotten foods being delicacies and how his grandmother was an expert carrion-eater.) Recommended for goths. ;)