摘要
“Stop laughing,I’m dead”explores the implications and potentialities of the mode of address in the novel Suicide byÉdouard Levéin the valences of identification and potential overidentification of the subject of the novel with the author or the reader himself.The mode of address in question is the consistent and highly suggestive use of the personal pronoun“you”as a route of invocation of the novel’s main character.The essay is conceived as an overlaying dialogue between two polarities of writing-academic writing and automatic journaling,which serves as a reflection and exploration of the fissure created by Levéhimself through his writing strategies and life events coinciding with the content of the novel.The essay thus attempts to speak from and speak to both the cognitive and affective tensions that arise from the reading and interpretation of Levé’s opus and continually renegotiate the positions of the reader,the writer,and the corpse.
