Suicide (French Literature) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Suicide Edouard Leve delivered the manuscript for his final book, Suicide, just a few days before he took his own life.
Full description- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Published: 19 April 2011
- Format: Paperback 144 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781564786289 ISBN 10: 1564786285
- Sales rank: 45,733
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Full description for Suicide
Suicide cannot be read as simply another novel it is, in a sense, the author 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 friend perhaps real, perhaps fictional more than twenty years earlier, Leve 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 Leve s casually obsessive, pointillist, beautiful ruminations, we come to know a stoic, sensible, thoughtful man who bears more than a slight psychological resemblance to Leve 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.
