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Qiu, Miaojin, 1969-
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Lesbians -- Fiction.
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Qiu, Miaojin, 1969-
Lesbians -- Fiction.
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Last Words from Montmartre / Qiu Miaojin ; translated and with an introduction by Ari Larissa Heinrich.
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Qiu, Miaojin,
1969-
New York Review Books, 2014, c1996.
Call #:
FICTION QIU
Subjects
Lesbians -- Fiction.
Series
New York Review Books classics.
ISBN:
9781590177259 (trade pbk.)
1590177258 (trade pbk.)
Description:
161 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in 1996.
Summary:
"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 friends in 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 certain extent, 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"--Publisher.
Genre:
Psychological fiction.
Epistolary fiction.
Love stories.
Biographical fiction.
Other authors:
Heinrich, Ari Larissa.
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Halifax North Memorial Public Library
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