Last words from Montmartre
(Book)
Author
Contributors
Heinrich, Ari Larissa translator.
Published
New York : New York Review Books, 2014.
Format
Book
ISBN
9781590177259 (pbk.), 1590177258 (pbk.)
Physical Desc
161 pages ; 21 cm
Status
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Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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Central Library - Adult Fiction - Main Level - Fiction Area | Qiu,Miaoj | Checked Out | May 18, 2024 |
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Published
New York : New York Review Books, 2014.
Street Date
1406
Language
English
ISBN
9781590177259 (pbk.), 1590177258 (pbk.)
Notes
Description
"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"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Qiu, M., & Heinrich, A. L. (2014). Last words from Montmartre . New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Qiu, Miaojin, 1969-1995 and Ari Larissa Heinrich. 2014. Last Words From Montmartre. New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Qiu, Miaojin, 1969-1995 and Ari Larissa Heinrich. Last Words From Montmartre New York Review Books, 2014.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Qiu, Miaojin, and Ari Larissa Heinrich. Last Words From Montmartre New York Review Books, 2014.
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