| A Cannibal and Melancholy Mourning Contributor(s): Mavrikakis, Catherine (Author), Stephens, Nathalie (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1552451402 ISBN-13: 9781552451403 Publisher: Coach House Books OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2000 Annotation: English translation of Quebecoise first novel is a stirring mediation on death, language and romantic obsession. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Psychological |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2022285785 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5" W x 8.2" (0.55 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Herv , the friend with AIDS; his lover, Herv , also afflicted; Herv the hairdresser; Herv next door who has defenestrated himself: in A Cannibal and Melancholy Mourning the narrator confronts the deaths of so many friends, all named Herv . But the dead cannot be buried so easily; they live on, spectres haunting her, as the cumulative effect of all her Herv s becomes a multifaced Death that simultaneously angers, saddens, cheers and confuses her. In this unfolding series of encounters between the living and the dead, Mavrikakis draws on Deleuze, Freud, Foucault and novelist Herv Guibert to make of herself and of this visceral, compelling novel a kind of living mausoleu where those unable to speak may still be heard. |