Narrative fiction and death : dying imagined /: dying imagined. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sabine Köllmann.
• Authors: Köllmann, Sabine, 1960-
• Contents: Introduction 1. Facing execution Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829) Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot (1869) Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890) Jorge Luis Borges, The Secret Miracle (1943) Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading (1938) 2. Life’s choices at death Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886) Carlos Fuentes, The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962) 3. In the mirror: women and death Arthur Schnitzler, Fräulein Else (1924) María Luisa Bombal, The Shrouded Woman (1938) Ilse Aichinger, Story in Reverse (1949) Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (2019) 4. Death and the writer: autofiction at the limit Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil (1945) Maurice Blanchot, The Instant of My Death (1994) Péter Nádas, Own Death (2002) Conclusion
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (304 pages)
• Subjects: 809.933548; Death in literature; Fiction -- History and criticism; First person narrative -- History and criticism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000965049
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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