A Cannibal and Melancholy Mourning
Catherine Mavrikakis$12.71
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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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Coach House Books
Published: 04/19/2000
ISBN: 9781552451403
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 8.36h x 4.98w x 0.54d
Review Citations: Quill & Quire 06/01/2004 pg. 37