@article{ref1,
title="Contemporary French Fictions of Suicide: A Medical Humanities Approach",
journal="Essays in French Literature and Culture",
year="2021",
author="Jones, K.",
volume="58",
number="",
pages="173-190",
abstract="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>",
language="en",
issn="1835-7040",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}