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| Being Dead Author: Jim Crace Published: 1999 | Pages: 208 |
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Narrated much in the
same way as the movie Memento,
Being Dead starts off with the murder of its protagonists.
We then flash back in time to the point where they met and work our
way forward to their murder. Underneath the unusual narrative device
lies what is essentially a love story about two people who grew apart
in life, but end up together in death. The odd part of the story is
the clinical and scientific way the author describes death. There
is very little sentimentality connected to it, just rotting flesh,
shattered bone and decay. This makes a lot of sense out in the context
of the lives of our main characters, as they are zoologists. This
is the way they would talk about death, about the fly larva infesting
their bodies, and the crabs feeding off their flesh (they were killed
on a beach). While the gruesome details of their moldering bodies
seems horrifying to most, this cycle of life would be beautiful to
the scientist. So, basically, in death they are connected by the one
thing in life that they both shared--science. |
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