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Last Words From Montmartre

Af: Qiu Miaojin Engelsk Paperback

Last Words From Montmartre

Af: Qiu Miaojin Engelsk Paperback
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An NYRB Classics Original

When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she left behind her unpublished masterpiece, Last Words from Montmartre. Unfolding through a series of letters written by an unnamed narrator, Last Words tells the story of a passionate relationship between two young women—their sexual awakening, their gradual breakup, and the devastating aftermath of their broken love. In a style that veers between extremes, from self-deprecation to pathos, compulsive repetition to rhapsodic musings, reticence to vulnerability, Qiu’s genre-bending novel is at once a psychological thriller, a sublime romance, and the author’s own suicide note.

The letters (which, Qiu tells us, can be read in any order) leap between Paris, Taipei, and Tokyo. They display wrenching insights into what it means to live between cultures, languages, and genders—until the genderless character Zoë appears, and the narrator’s spiritual and physical identity is transformed. As powerfully raw and transcendent as Mishima’s Confessions of a Mask, Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, and Theresa Cha’s Dictée, to name but a few, Last Words from Montmartre proves Qiu Miaojin to be one of the finest experimentalists and modernist Chinese-language writers of our generation.
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An NYRB Classics Original

When the pioneering Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in 1995 at age twenty-six, she left behind her unpublished masterpiece, Last Words from Montmartre. Unfolding through a series of letters written by an unnamed narrator, Last Words tells the story of a passionate relationship between two young women—their sexual awakening, their gradual breakup, and the devastating aftermath of their broken love. In a style that veers between extremes, from self-deprecation to pathos, compulsive repetition to rhapsodic musings, reticence to vulnerability, Qiu’s genre-bending novel is at once a psychological thriller, a sublime romance, and the author’s own suicide note.

The letters (which, Qiu tells us, can be read in any order) leap between Paris, Taipei, and Tokyo. They display wrenching insights into what it means to live between cultures, languages, and genders—until the genderless character Zoë appears, and the narrator’s spiritual and physical identity is transformed. As powerfully raw and transcendent as Mishima’s Confessions of a Mask, Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther, and Theresa Cha’s Dictée, to name but a few, Last Words from Montmartre proves Qiu Miaojin to be one of the finest experimentalists and modernist Chinese-language writers of our generation.
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 176
ISBN-13: 9781590177259
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1590177258
Udg. Dato: 3 jun 2014
Længde: 13mm
Bredde: 131mm
Højde: 203mm
Forlag: The New York Review of Books, Inc
Oplagsdato: 3 jun 2014
Forfatter(e): Qiu Miaojin
Forfatter(e) Qiu Miaojin


Kategori Moderne Samtidslitteratur


ISBN-13 9781590177259


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 176


Udgave


Længde 13mm


Bredde 131mm


Højde 203mm


Udg. Dato 3 jun 2014


Oplagsdato 3 jun 2014


Forlag The New York Review of Books, Inc

Kategori sammenhænge