Suicide

Edouard Leve,Jan Steyn

Suicide
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Country
United States
Published
11 September 2014
Pages
104
ISBN
9781564786289

Suicide

Edouard Leve,Jan Steyn

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.

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