Introduction
1. Facing execution
Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man (1829)
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot (1869)
Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1890)
Jorge Luis Borges, The Secret Miracle (1943)
Vladimir Nabokov, Invitation to a Beheading (1938)
2. Life’s choices at death
Leo Tolstoy, The Death of Ivan Ilyich (1886)
Carlos Fuentes, The Death of Artemio Cruz (1962)
3. In the mirror: women and death
Arthur Schnitzler, Fräulein Else (1924)
María Luisa Bombal, The Shrouded Woman (1938)
Ilse Aichinger, Story in Reverse (1949)
Elif Shafak, 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (2019)
4. Death and the writer: autofiction at the limit
Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil (1945)
Maurice Blanchot, The Instant of My Death (1994)
Péter Nádas, Own Death (2002)
Conclusion
Biography
Sabine Köllmann is an independent scholar based in London. She is the author of Vargas Llosa and the Demons of Politics and A Companion to Mario Vargas Llosa (Támesis). She has published on rhetoric in fiction and contributed to the Oxford Handbook of the Latin American Novel.
