Edouard Leve: Suicide

I've never heard a single person, since your death, tell your life story starting at the beginning. Your suicide has become the foundational act...

You don't make me sad, but solemn . . . I take advantage on your behalf of things you can no longer experience. Dead, you make me more alive...

You suffered real life in its continuous stream, but you controlled the flow of fictional life by reading at your own rhythm . . . As a reader, you had the power of a god: time submitted to you.

You died because you searched for happiness at the risk of finding the void... Your suicide was the most important thing you ever said.