Last Words from Montmartre
€ 19,45
Informação do Produto
| ISBN | 9781590177259 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Qiu Miaojin |
| Editora | New York Review Books |
| Formato | Capa mole |
| Número de páginas | 176 |
| Peso (kg) | 0,182 |
| Data de Publicação | 03/06/2014 |
| Preço (iva excl.) | € 18,35 |
| Imposto | € 1,10 |
| Preço (iva inc.) | € 19,45 |
| Disponibilidade | +20 unidades em armazém externo |
Descrição do Produto
"An NYRB Classics Original Last Words from Montmartre is a novel in letters that narrates the gradual dissolution of a relationship between two lovers and, ultimately, the complete unraveling of the narrator. In a voice that veers between extremes, from self-deprecation to hubris, compulsive repetition to sublime reflection, reticence to vulnerability, it can be read as both the author''s masterpiece and a labor of love, as well as her own suicide note. Last Words from Montmartre, written just as Internet culture was about to explode, is also a kind of farewell to letters. The opening note urges us to read the letters in any order. Each letter unfolds as a chapter, the narrator writing from Paris to her lover in Taipei and to family and friendsin Taiwan and Tokyo. The book opens with the death of a beloved pet rabbit and closes with a portentous expression of the narrator''s resolve to kill herself. In between we follow Qiu''s protagonist into the streets of Montmartre; into descriptions of affairs with both men and women, French and Taiwanese; into rhapsodic musings on the works of Theodoros Angelopoulos and Andrei Tarkovsky; and into wrenching and clear-eyed outlines of what it means to exist not only between cultures but, to a certainextent, between and among genders. More Confessions of a Mask than Well of Loneliness, the novel marks Qiu as one of the finest experimentalist and modernist Chinese-language writers of our generation"--