Suicide (French Literature)

Suicide (French Literature)

Suicide cannot be read as simply another novelâ€•it is, in a sense, the authorâ€™s own oblique, public suicide note, a unique meditation on this most extreme of refusals. Presenting itself as an investigation into the suicide of a close friendâ€•perhaps real, perhaps fictionalâ€•more than twenty years earlier, LevÃ© gives us, little by little, a striking portrait of a man, with all his talents and flaws, who chose to reject his life, and all the people who loved him, in favor of oblivion. Gradually, through LevÃ©â€™s casually obsessive, pointillist, beautiful ruminations, we come to know a stoic, sensible, thoughtful man who bears more than a slight psychological resemblance to LevÃ© himself. But Suicide is more than just a compendium of memories of an old friend; it is a near-exhaustive catalog of the ramifications and effects of the act of suicide, and a unique and melancholy farewell to life.
Country USA
Brand Dalkey Archive Press
Manufacturer Dalkey Archive Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781564786289
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

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