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Last Words from Montmartre
- Title
- Last Words from Montmartre / Qiu Miaojin ; translated and with an introduction by Ari Larissa Heinrich.
- Author
- Qiu, Miaojin, 1969-
- Publication
- New York : New York Review Books, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 14-3662 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Heinrich, Ari Larissa
- Description
- 161 pages; 21 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- New York Review Books Classics
- Uniform Title
- New York Review Books classics.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Psychological fiction.
- Epistolary fiction.
- Romance fiction.
- Biographical fiction.
- Language (note)
- Originally published in 1969.
- Call Number
- JFD 14-3662
- ISBN
- 9781590177259 (pbk.)
- 1590177258 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2013049765
- OCLC
- 858126076
- Author
- Qiu, Miaojin, 1969-
- Title
- Last Words from Montmartre / Qiu Miaojin ; translated and with an introduction by Ari Larissa Heinrich.
- Publisher
- New York : New York Review Books, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New York Review Books ClassicsNew York Review Books classics.
- Language
- Originally published in 1969.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Heinrich, Ari Larissa, translator.Qiu, Miaojin, 1969- Last words from Montmartre. English.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-3662
