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If I Had Not Seen Their Sleeping Faces: fragments on death after Anna de Noailles

Christina Tudor-Sideri

"the trembling metaphor of why we live, and how, and for how long, of how we strive for a good death, the kaleidoscopic haze of what remains on the path once we've shed our febrile skin in a miasmic atmosphere where everyone has been asleep for ages and the only sound a heart makes is that of the pen touching the page"


With lines from Les Vivants Et Les Morts by Anna de Noailles as preambles to its fragments, If I Had Not Seen Their Sleeping Faces is first and foremost a refusal of the modern tendency to exile death and the dying, but also an invitation to revisit the old Epicurean dictum: Death is nothing to us.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Erratum Press
  • Publish Date: Apr 30th, 2023
  • Pages: 118
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.48in - 4.72in - 0.28in - 0.26lb
  • EAN: 9781916541016
  • Categories: GeneralSubjects & Themes - Death, Grief, Loss