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'The chapel, and not the church, is where the funeral takes place in "Grief," a short story from David Brooks's 'Napoleon's Roads'. Because the chapel isn't used much, being less grand than the church and located inside the walls of the cemetery, it stinks of mice droppings and requires sweeping-out the day before. Here, on the pews before the open casket of Katia's Nona, dead from a fall that left the right side of her face an open wound, is where "Grief" begins, and where it ends. Nona, the death mask, her old and broken face repeated, perhaps like a Janus-face, the bookends of the story in between.' (Publication abstract)
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The End of the Image : The Moth and the Cat in David Brooks's "Grief" and Virginia Woolf's "the Death of the Moth"
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