Ebook: Suicide

Paperback. Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 144 Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press of Edouard Lev delivered the manuscript for his final book. Suicide just a few Days before he took his own life. Suicide can not 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. Lev 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 Lev s casually obsessive. pointillist. beautiful ruminations. we come to know a stoic. sensible. thoughtful man who bears more than a slight psychological resemblance to Lev himself. But Suicide is mo...