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Life, End ofChristine Brooke-Rose![]() 10% off all versions
Categories: 21st Century, British, Women
Imprint: Carcanet Fiction Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (124 pages) 9781857548464 £14.95 £13.45 eBook (Kindle) 9781847775733 £14.95 £13.45 eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! 9781847775726 £14.95 £13.45 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have, or are prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
'It is the brain, it is the brain endures, yet even the pain from that misquote floods the mind. Which also shrinks and dies. As Eve falls.
The immediate environment always shrinks, from house to flat to room to bed to coffin to earthworm - turns then grows again to compost to earth to planet to universe. Even language dies, like their speakers, thousands per century... It is the brain, it is the brain endures.' from Chapter 1
She is eighty. Facing death, she considers her experiments with narrative, and with the narrative of her life. What is the purpose of the narrative she is creating here, and what the purpose of the life that lives it in the writing? At the centre of Life, End of, in a mock-technical lecture from the Character to the Author, she comes to accept that her experiments in narrative are like life: the narrative creates itself.
Christine Brooke-Rose's last novel is a darkly comic exploration of the meanings and non-meanings to which, in the end, life and art lead us.
Praise for Christine Brooke-Rose
If we are ever to experience in English the serious practice of narrative as the French have developed it over the last few years, we shall have to attend to Christine Brooke-Rose.
Frank Kermode on Thru If we are ever to experience in English the serious practice of narrative as the French have developed it over the last few years, we shall have to attend to Christine Brooke-Rose. Frank Kermode on Thru Out represents quite a new departure in Miss Brooke-Rose's work... a splendid achievement... Isobel English Such is a runaway success for her original technique... funny, painful, exciting, haunting... Elizabeth Smart Her finest novel completely succeeds because subject and language are one. Angus Wilson on Between If we are ever to experience in English the serious practice of narrative as the French have developed it over the last few years, we shall have to attend to Christine Brooke-Rose. Frank Kermode on Thru Out represents quite a new departure in Miss Brooke-Rose's work... a splendid achievement... Isobel English Such is a runaway success for her original technique... funny, painful, exciting, haunting... Elizabeth Smart Her finest novel completely succeeds because subject and language are one. Angus Wilson on Between Her finest novel completely succeeds because subject and language are one. Angus Wilson on Between Such is a runaway success for her original technique... funny, painful, exciting, haunting... Elizabeth Smart Out represents quite a new departure in Miss Brooke-Rose's work... a splendid achievement... Isobel English
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