Suicide as a literary event
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Suicide. Textuality. Blanchot. Derrida.Abstract
Following Esenin’s suicide, Mayakovsky referred to his death as a “literary fact”. Five years later, his suicide would be called by the same expression. Replacing the word “fact” by “event”, a reflection shall be developed about the relations between suicide and literature. Firstly, the spectacular sphere of suicide will be discussed together with its dual character as a performance. Subsequently, focus shall be turned to the movement of self-destruction inherent to the text with basis on the ideas of Blanchot, leading, finally, to a deconstructive approach of the notions of event and literature.
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