title: Suicide (Folio) (English and French Edition)
author: Edouard Leve
description: Jean Rolin is a companion with whom one can walk as one hears his clear and dispassionate voice, his wry humor . . . One day I ll have to tell this story, the story of my heroic death and the ensuing revolution, he announces on the final page. I look forward to this.--Christian Authier<br /><br />A astonishing novel.--Zadie Smith, author of White Teeth<br /><br />A astonishing novel. --Zadie Smith, author of White Teeth<br /><br />A book that will never disappear, a book too provocative ever to be forgotten. --Jacques Morice<br /><br />Suicide is not a fictionalized account of Leve s death; in some respects it is a negative image of it. You didn t leave any letters for loved ones to explain your death, he writes, although Leve himself reportedly did. Leve s art and life nonetheless converge, fuse, and end brutally together. Ironically, Suicide represents a new departure for Leve: his previous books could be considered conceptual conceits, whereas Suicide is something else, a purely literary work. At the end of his life, Leve had by no means exhausted his art. --Hugo Wilcken<br /><br />Suicide is not a fictionalized account of Lev 's death; in some respects it is a negative image of it. You didn t leave any letters for loved ones to explain your death, he writes, although Lev himself reportedly did. Lev 's art and life nonetheless converge, fuse, and end brutally together. Ironically, Suicide represents a new departure for Lev : his previous books could be considered conceptual conceits, whereas Suicide is something else, a purely literary work. At the end of his life, Lev had by no means exhausted his art. --Hugo Wilcken
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  **Contents**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  * [_Cover_](9780062679185_Cover.xhtml#cover)
  
  
  * [_Title Page_](9780062679185_Titlepage.xhtml#tit)
  
  
  * [_Dedication_](9780062679185_Dedication.xhtml#ded)
  
  
  * [_Epigraph_](9780062679185_Frontmatter_01.xhtml#epi)
  
  
  * [Author’s Note for the Reader](9780062679185_AuthorsNote.xhtml#aut)
  
  
  * [Contents](9780062679185_Contents.xhtml)
  
  
  * [Prelude: In Olden Times, When Wishing Still Helped](9780062679185_Frontmatter_02.xhtml#fm)
  
  
  * [I. They Both Went Down](9780062679185_Part_01.xhtml#pt1)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Rams](9780062679185_Chapter_01.xhtml#ch1)
  
  
  * [Nats](9780062679185_Chapter_02.xhtml#ch2)
  
  
  * [Rams](9780062679185_Chapter_03.xhtml#ch3)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [II. Fill Your Knapsack Full of the Sweepings](9780062679185_Part_02.xhtml#pt2)
  
  
  
  
  
  * [Nats](9780062679185_Chapter_04.xhtml#ch4)
  
  
  * [Rams](9780062679185_Chapter_05.xhtml#ch5)
  
  
  * [Nats](9780062679185_Chapter_06.xhtml#ch6)
  
  
  * [Rams](9780062679185_Chapter_07.xhtml#ch7)
  
  
  * [Nats](9780062679185_Chapter_08.xhtml#ch8)
  
  
  * [Rams](9780062679