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100 1 $aQiu, Miaojin,$d1969-1995.
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 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $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.
546 $aTranslated from Chinese.
650 0 $aLesbian authors$vFiction.
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650 7 $aFICTION$xLesbian.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION$xPsychological.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aLesbian authors.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst00996461
650 7 $aBriefroman$2gnd
650 7 $aLesbische Orientierung$2gnd
655 7 $aRomance fiction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01921732
655 7 $aEpistolary fiction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01726597
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655 7 $aPsychological fiction.$2lcgft
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655 7 $aFiction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01423787
655 7 $aPsychological fiction.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01726481
655 7 $aEpistolary fiction.$2gsafd
655 7 $aLove stories.$2gsafd
655 7 $aBiographical fiction.$2gsafd
700 1 $aHeinrich, Ari Larissa,$etranslator.
700 12 $aQiu, Miaojin,$d1969-1995.$tWorks.$kSelections.$lEnglish.
830 0 $aNew York Review Books classics.
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