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"Montmartre's Last Letter" Author: Qiu Miaojin Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press
"Montmartre's Last Letter" Author: Qiu Miaojin Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press
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Introduction · · · · · ·
Subversive LES Secret Book
The "Bible" of the Taiwanese Lazi community for generations
Recommended by Jiang Xun, Luo Yijun and Chen Xue
An analysis of the psychological journey of leaving the world: a deep description of female sexual desire
Witness the immortality of love with the determination and purity of death
The pursuit of the ultimate meaning of life and the desperate questioning of the soul forever shock all the pale souls in the world.
Falling deeply into the darkest pain in life, struggling with the meaning of love and death - is death also a part of creation?
In the summer of 1995, the talented Taiwanese novelist Qiu Miaojin committed suicide in Paris at the age of 26. These 20 letters are her life confession to the world. The intensity of love, the pain of betrayal, the reckless possession and the painful self-analysis are all poured out in the text, and the pure questioning about love and art will forever shock all the pale souls in the world.
This book took Taiwan by storm as soon as it was published. For a whole generation of young people who have not had the opportunity to think deeply about the true meaning of love and death, Qiu Miaojin's writing provides not only a classic reading material, but also a coordinate for pilgrimage and a confession of the soul in the face of honest love.
"I am truly honest and responsible about the meaning of my life. Although my body dies and my formal life ends, I do not feel that my soul is destroyed and my invisible life ends."
Can we use "death" to defend this absurd world? So I read "Montmartre's Testament". It is one of the few books in Taiwan after the war that made me cry. - Jiang Xun
In Taiwan, "Last Letter from Montmartre" has become a must-read classic for almost every lesbian, and may even be the "Bible" of the lesbian community for several generations (twenty years have passed)... "Last Letter from Montmartre" is not only Qiu Miaojin's own creative asset, it is like "Dream of the Red Chamber" and Shakespeare's plays, becoming the dream of the extreme region and a condensed metaphor of the lesbian world in Taiwan. - Luo Yijun
People worship a dead person and gain the power of life from him. This is a work of extraordinary significance to both the author and the reader. "With such a soul, the world is so beautiful. I am even more reluctant to die." I hope this will be everyone's admiration after reading "Montmartre's Last Letter". - Chen Xue
About the Author · · · · · ·
A legend that shook Taiwan, a genius who created with his life
He emerged with fierce talent, and bid farewell to the world resolutely and tragically.
The most brilliant and legendary lesbian writer in Taiwan's literary world at the end of the 20th century
Qiu Miaojin was born in Changhua, Taiwan in 1969. He graduated from National Taiwan University in 1991. In 1992, he went to France to study psychology at the University of Paris VIII. In June 1995, he committed suicide in Paris at the age of 26. Qiu Miaojin's multifaceted talents began to fully manifest in college. He won the Taiwan Central Daily News Short Story Literature Award, the United Literature Novella Newcomer Award, etc., and shot a 30-minute 16-centimeter film "Ghost Carnival".
Qiu Miaojin's sudden death caused a great shock in the Taiwanese literary world, and immediately created a trend. In October of the same year, her first novel "Crocodile Notes" won the Times Literary Award Recommendation Award. The words "Lazi" and "Crocodile" in the book also became the self-names used by the Taiwanese lesbian community. The following year, her posthumous work "Montmartre Last Letter" was compiled and published by a friend, which caused a sensation throughout Taiwan and became a classic that almost everyone in the Taiwanese lesbian community must read.
His major literary works include "Carnival of Ghosts", "Notes of the Crocodile", "La Testament de Montmartre", etc.
