IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS AN END – DEATH KIT BY SUSAN SONTAG
Journal Title: Eunomia - Rozwój Zrównoważony - Sustainable Development - Year 2018, Vol 95, Issue 2
Abstract
The concept of endings suggests that the whole idea can be perceived not only in one way. The article concentrates on a theory that in the very beginning there was an end and it initiated everything. Furthermore, the moment when something ends is inseparably connected with the conception of something else. There is no clear definition of ending, because it may concern many different circumstances, and its consequences may be often various. The end is obviously strongly related to death and Diddy, the protagonist of Death Kit by Susan Sontag. The complexity of the main character is presented by his various nicknames. The man committed suicide, and this act, altogether with illness, is treated as a halfway to death. The way itself seems to be an important aspect in the plot due to dying hallucinations that Diddy experiences. The fatal attempt of the protagonist was successful, and the whole adventure in the novel is deceptive. Life is substituted with appearances of life, thus everything described never takes place, in fact.
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Michał Jurkiewicz
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