{"id":29751,"date":"2020-02-24T16:42:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T16:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/?p=29751"},"modified":"2020-02-24T16:42:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T16:42:48","slug":"last-words-from-montmartre-by-qiu-miaojin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesbianfunworld.com\/books\/last-words-from-montmartre-by-qiu-miaojin\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Words From Montmartre by Qiu Miaojin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘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’–<\/div>\n
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