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Post Mortem

Name: Post Mortem
Brand: Independently Published
SKU: 9798271742040
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Contributors:

Romain Pierre Alexandre Delpeuch (Translator), Albert Caraco

Publisher:

Independently Published

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Poetry, Literary Collections

Book Subcategory:

Subjects & Themes, Essays, Diaries & Journals

Book Topic:

Love & Erotica

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Release Date:

11/26/2025

ISBN 13:

9798271742040

Weight:

0.27 lbs

Size:

8.00 x 5.00 x 0.28 inches

Pages:

118

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"... the shadows of death are the spices of love, and eternal life would be the school of absolute coldness. We love a being that the morrows threaten, and love her all the more as she is more threatened...."

Albert Caraco was born in 1919 in Constantinople in a Jewish family established in Turkey for four centuries. He grew up in Prague, Berlin, and Paris, where he attended Janson-de-Sailly high school, and got his degree from the École des Hautes Études Commerciales. In 1939, he and his parents fled Europe to South America at the break of World War II, and settled in Montevideo after living in Brazil and Argentina, where his first books were published. Albert Caraco acquired Uruguayan citizenship and retained it for the rest of his life. Back in Paris in 1949, he started writing his immense body of work, part of which remains unpublished to this day.
An ambiguous figure, Albert Caraco built nothing short of a baroque literary cathedral, rife with contradictions, yet rising from an uncompromisingly pessimistic foundation. In 1971, consistent with what he had announced recurrently in his semainiers (weekly diaries), he killed himself just a few hours after his father died.
The death of his mother in 1963 was the occasion for a reckoning of his relationship with the woman he reproached for having given him birth, while praising her for forming his taste and character and uprooting the sheer possibility of consoling illusions in her only son. The result was Post Mortem, a bittersweet lament and a love poem in prose that offers a glimpse into his bleak worldview and an abstract of his works.

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