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Suicide, the French writer and artist Edouard Levé tells the story of a 25-year-old man, born on 25 December (a kind of Christ figure, but that is rather too obvious a red herring), who is never named. The narrative is written in the second person singular, ‘Since you seldom spoke, you were rarely wrong.’ This has an effect that is at once impersonal and intimate, both chillingly distant and deeply personal. Having just left his house dressed for a tennis match with his wife, the 25-year-old claims he has forgotten something, turns back, walks down into his basement, picks up a shotgun and shoots himself in the head. Just before doing so, the young man had opened up a comic book to a specific page. This is his suicide note, which is overlooked because, before his gesture can be understood, his wife inadvertently closes the book and loses the page. Levé then killed himself ten days after handing in the manuscript to his publisher, on 15 October 2007. That’s it.

2 Nov 2026

Passagem de Notes on Suicide, de Simon Critchley.

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2026-11-02 note: Suicide, the French writer and artist Edouard Levé tells the story of a 25-year-old man, born on 25 December (a kind of Christ figure, but that is rather too obvious a red herring), who is never named. The narrative is written in the second person singular, ‘Since you seldom spoke, you were rarely wrong.’ This has an effect that is at once impersonal and intimate, both chillingly distant and deeply personal. Having just left his house dressed for a tennis match with his wife, the 25-year-old claims he has forgotten something, turns back, walks down into his basement, picks up a shotgun and shoots himself in the head. Just before doing so, the young man had opened up a comic book to a specific page. This is his suicide note, which is overlooked because, before his gesture can be understood, his wife inadvertently closes the book and loses the page. Levé then killed himself ten days after handing in the manuscript to his publisher, on 15 October 2007. That’s it.