The Room by Conrad Aiken | Resources

The Room For Further Reading

Aiken, Conrad, Ushant, Little, Brown, 1952.

In Ushant, an autobiographical novel, Aiken describes his struggles with despair and his own suicidal impulses resulting from the childhood trauma of his parents' death. The book also chronicles his many friendships with poets such as T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound and traces his career and the development of his thought.

Jung, C. G., The Basic Writings of C. G. Jung, edited by Violet Staub de Laszlo, Modern Library, 1993.

This anthology of Jung's writings provides an excellent introduction to his thought and includes selections on symbols, archetypes, and the collective unconscious.

Lorenz, Clarissa, Lorelei Two: My Life with Conrad Aiken, University of Georgia Press, 1983.

This book is an account of life with Aiken in the late 1920s and early 1930s, written by his second wife.

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