Descript |
157 pages 23 cm |
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Translated edition, revised and expanded: Gallimard, Paris, 2012 |
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Includes bibliographical references (page 157). 6 |
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Exemplary Departures consists of five exquisitely wrought novellas depicting five "exemplary" deaths in various exotic locations around the globe : a gentlmean spy disappears with his secrets into the Malaysian jungle; a young woman agonizes atop a ruined castle overlooking the Rhine; a writer succumbs to alcoholism in the streets of Baltimore; a salesman expires as a vagabond in the sewers of New York; and hermaphroditic twins are assassinated in a stagecoach. Drawing from the remnants of real-life anecdotes--from Edgar Allan Poe's final days to the agonizing tale of Idilia Dubb--these stories are imagined descents into death's supreme indifference. A true modern inheritor of the legacy of French Decadent writers, Wittkop spins in these tales with her trademark macabre elegance and chilling humor, maneuvering in an uncertain space between dark Romanticism, Gothic Expresisonism, and Sadistic cruelty. "Death is life's most important moment," Witthop had claimed; Exemplary Departures offers five particularly important moments for the English reader's dubious delectation. -- Provided by publisher |
Subject |
Döden
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Death -- Fiction
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Noveller
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Classmark |
820
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Heej.016
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Translation |
Les Départs exemplaires. Engelska
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ISBN/ISSN |
9781939663139 |
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