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Epistolary novel · Medium

Last Words from Montmartre

Qiu Miaojin · 1995; English translation 2014 · Taiwan / Chinese

A posthumously published epistolary novel structured around letters between two young women and the aftermath of love.

Notes and Misconceptions

It is too often reduced to the author's death.

The book is formally sharp: a self-conscious arrangement of letters, identity, performance, and emotional extremity.

Best Path

Letters, queer literature, art and grief

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