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Suicide

Levé, Édouard. (Author). Steyn, Jan. (Added Author).

Summary: "'Suicide' cannot be read as simply another novel{u2014}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{u2014}perhaps real, perhaps fictional{u2014}more than twenty years earlier, Levé 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 Levé's casually obsessive, pointillist, beautiful ruminations, we come to know a stoic, sensible, thoughtful man who bears more than a slight psychological resemblance to Levé himself"--Publisher description.

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  • ISBN: 9781564786494
  • ISBN: 1564786498
  • ISBN: 9781564786289
  • ISBN: 1564786285
  • Physical Description: remote
    1 online resource (128 pages).
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Champaign [Ill.] : Dalkey Archive Press, 2011.

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General Note:
Originally published in French as: Suicide. P.O.L. éditeur, 2008.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
Restrictions: NLC students and staff only.
Language Note:
Translated from the French.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.

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  • Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2011 January #5

    The suicide of a childhood friend—addressed here as "you"—elicits a reflective and dignified expression of wondering and grief in this last work by artist and writer Levé (1965–2007), who finished this novel 10 days before killing himself. The narrator describes his friend as a solitary, taciturn character who smoked American cigarettes, studied economics, played the drums in rock bands, and kept largely to himself. Subtle, troubling details begin to emerge: feeling increasingly "ill adapted to the world," the friend stops traveling and obsesses over his own death, designing his own tomb and growing despondent, seized by a kind of resignation. In the end, having left the house with his wife to attend a tennis date, he returns by himself, heads to the basement, and blows his head off. Why did he do it? the author wonders. Leve's slender narrative possesses a near-clinical precision of detail, which functions as both a funeral oration and the chilling foretelling of his own death. (Apr.)

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