TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2021//
TI  - Contemporary French Fictions of Suicide: A Medical Humanities Approach
JO  - Essays in French Literature and Culture
A1  - Jones, K.
SP  - 173
EP  - 190
VL  - 58
IS  - 
N2  - This paper compares Catherine Cusset's L'autre qu'on adorait (2016) and Régis Jauffret's Lacrimosa (2008), as examples of 21st-century novels in which suicide is the central focus. Recent texts tend to move away from earlier portrayals of suicide as a philosophical or aesthetic gesture towards a deeper engagement with the causes and consequences of suicide. Placing these highly literary autofictions within a wider context of cultural interest in suicide extending to popular genres, I suggest that their formal complexity allows them to engage critically with stereotypes, and represent the unknowability of the suicidal mind. I also argue that literary representation of mental illness should be seen as part of a broader public discourse that influences social attitudes. © 2021, Westerly Centre, The University of Western Australia. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1835-7040
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -