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LEADER: 02867cam a2200409 i 4500
001 2013049765
003 DLC
005 20141202110947.0
008 140113s2014 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2013049765
020 $a9781590177259 (pbk.)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
041 1 $aeng$hchi
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPR9470.9.M53$bL3713 2014
082 00 $a822/.914$223
084 $aFIC041000$aFIC018000$aFIC025000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aQiu, Miaojin,$d1969-
245 10 $aLast words from Montmartre /$cQiu Miaojin ; translated from the Chinese by Ari Larissa Heinrich.
264 1 $aNew York :$bNew York Review Books,$c2014.
300 $a161 pages ;$c21 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aNew York Review Books Classics
520 $a"An NYRB Classics Original Last Words from Montmartre is a novel in letters that narrates the gradual dissolution of a relationship between two lovers and, ultimately, the complete unraveling of the narrator. In a voice that veers between extremes, from self-deprecation to hubris, compulsive repetition to sublime reflection, reticence to vulnerability, it can be read as both the author's masterpiece and a labor of love, as well as her own suicide note. Last Words from Montmartre, written just as Internet culture was about to explode, is also a kind of farewell to letters. The opening note urges us to read the letters in any order. Each letter unfolds as a chapter, the narrator writing from Paris to her lover in Taipei and to family and friends in Taiwan and Tokyo. The book opens with the death of a beloved pet rabbit and closes with a portentous expression of the narrator's resolve to kill herself. In between we follow Qiu's protagonist into the streets of Montmartre; into descriptions of affairs with both men and women, French and Taiwanese; into rhapsodic musings on the works of Theodoros Angelopoulos and Andrei Tarkovsky; and into wrenching and clear-eyed outlines of what it means to exist not only between cultures but, to a certain extent, between and among genders. More Confessions of a Mask than Well of Loneliness, the novel marks Qiu as one of the finest experimentalist and modernist Chinese-language writers of our generation"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 0 $aLesbian authors$vFiction.
655 0 $aPsychological fiction.
655 7 $aEpistolary fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aLove stories.$2gsafd
655 7 $aBiographical fiction.$2gsafd
650 7 $aFICTION / Biographical.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Lesbian.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Psychological.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aHeinrich, Ari Larissa,$etranslator.
700 12 $aQiu, Miaojin,$d1969-.$tLast words from Montmartre.$lEnglish.
856 42 $3Cover image$u9781590177259.jpg