Suicide in Literature

Denerick

Honey-ec wrote: »

Javert.

I read Les Miserables when I was going through an uber-nerdy phase with the musical. Goood Lord, but it's boring!

Couldn't disagree more! Well, there was a very dull 200 pages or so around the half way mark, but by and large I loved that book.

godspal

Madame Bovary by Gustav Flaubert
Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes (actually deals with Slyvia Plath's suicide unlike the Bell Jar.)
MacBeth, Julius Caesar and Hamlet all have suicides in them.

sceptre

Denerick wrote: »

Couldn't disagree more! Well, there was a very dull 200 pages or so around the half way mark, but by and large I loved that book.

If you buy a penguin version they usually shove those two sections to the back and pretend that Hugo didn't go off on one half-way through.

MonicaBing

Beach Music by Pat Conroy, amazing book, starts with the line, " The dark subconscious of her mind, sounded the death knell for her time on earth"....Deals with the main character coming to grips with the death/suicide of his childhood sweetheart, which intriguingly connects with her parents time spent in World War 2 Germany.
This book evoked such emotions for me, ive yet to come across another book like it.

LostinKildare

Jude the Obscure
Sophie's Choice
Patriotism (Mishima)
Mrs. Dalloway
The House of Mirth

sfmonet

Anna Karenina - by Leo Tolstoy
Eustacia in The Return of the Native - by Thomas Hardy