Confissões de Um Comedor de Ópio

Synopsis of Confissões de Um Comedor de Ópio

«Confissões de Um Comedor de Ópio» is the autobiographical essay by Thomas de Quincey, published by Ediouro in paperback (80 pages, in Brazilian Portuguese).

The author recounts in the first person his experience with opium, after a youth marked by poverty, running away from school and abandonment in London. The work combines autobiographical confession with dreamlike and introspective descriptions of the drug's effects, and is considered a pioneering 19th-century text on this subject.

Work originally published in 1821 as «Confessions of an English Opium-Eater»; this edition belongs to the Intoxicações collection and includes a foreword by Joca Reiners Terron.

For those interested in autobiography, 19th-century literature and accounts of drugs and altered states of consciousness.