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The Pitiless Universe of Montherlant

Submitted by David Saltman, Jul 25, 2007 13:56

An odd thesis: that the loss of readers is "a death sentence" to writers, in an article about an author who, at the height of his popularity, put a bullet into his own head -- after swallowing cyanide.

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