By Edouard Levé
Suicide can't be learn as easily one other novel―it is, in a feeling, the author’s personal indirect, public suicide word, a distinct meditation in this so much severe of refusals. proposing itself as an research into the suicide of a detailed friend―perhaps genuine, maybe fictional―more than two decades prior, Levé provides us, bit by bit, a impressive portrait of a guy, with all his skills and flaws, who selected to reject his lifestyles, and all of the those who enjoyed him, in want of oblivion. steadily, via Levé’s casually obsessive, pointillist, attractive ruminations, we come to understand a stoic, good, considerate guy who bears greater than a mild mental resemblance to Levé himself. yet Suicide is greater than only a compendium of stories of an previous buddy; it's a near-exhaustive catalog of the ramifications and results of the act of suicide, and a different and depression farewell to existence.
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