Suicide Southern Europe

Suicide Southern EuropeBy Edouard Lev Translated by Jan Steyn 9781564786289 Publication date: June 5, 2014 Suicide cannot be read as simply another novelit is, in a sense, the author's own oblique, public suicide note, a unique meditation on this most extreme of refusals. Presenting itself as an investigation into the suicide of a close friendperhaps real, perhaps fictionalmore than twenty years earlier, Lev gives us, little by little, a striking portrait of a man, with all

Showing a maturing poet at home as a citizen of the world

Isle of Dreams is a sinister satire on urban decay

With grace

He is a professor of Korean Literature at Chosun University

and taught at UC San Diego during the late ‘60s and early ‘70s

and the places where

rejects in favor of a cautious optimism

and the addition of a ‘writer’s cut

Jachym Topol is the most-translated Czech author of his generation

Roddy Doyle

Hadrien Laroche is a former student of the École normale supérieure and completed his doctorate in philosophy under Jacques Derrida at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

forcing Albert to confront the horrors of his crime