Includes a first-hand account of the experience of depersonalization

Examines depersonalization in relation to well-known literary texts, including Camus’s The Strange and Sartre’s Nausea, and shows how the concept of depersonalized writing can be found in the work of literary theorists, including T.S. Eliot, Roland Barthes and Viktor Shklovsky

Explores how creative writers can make use of the lessons learned from the study of depersonalization to arrive at a deeper understanding of writing