The publisher themselves notes, with regard to the book: “
I Ask for the End of Life, Angélica Liddell crafts a long poem that converts annihilation into a horizon of lucidity.
It tightens her conception of death as an aesthetic ideal, for within it lies the radical demand for beauty: not a failure, but an absolute triumph and a deserved passion. Because, paradoxically, only that which accepts its vanishing can aspire to unconditional beauty; only that which consumes itself can escape degradation.
Threaded through the work and the thought of Yukio Mishima, this book establishes a passionate dialogue with the Japanese writer and with the maxims of the Hagakure, the ethical code of the samurai that understands death as a discipline of the spirit before it is a negation of life. In this way, the inseparable triad formed by eroticism, beauty, and death is embodied.
Thus, the biography becomes interwoven with images of Ingmar Bergman, with the bloody history of culture, and with a spectral roster of illustrious suicides—from Virginia Woolf to Kurt Cobain—demanding for all of them “honors”, “rare genuflections” and “a columbarium of gold bread.” Her writing, forged under a sky that threatens to bend, is a kamikaze trajectory driven by disgust and unrestrained love. I Ask for the End of the Life returns to one of the core centrals of her writing: the conviction that genius begins where the instinct for self-preservation ends and where existence ceases to be measured by its duration and instead is measured by its intensity. Because this book is a promise: to carry us to the end of the world, to complete the work of art with the finishing of one’s own life”.
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Author: Angélica Liddell. Title: I Ask for the End of Life. Publisher: La Bella Varsovia. Sales: Todos tus libros.