The Last Letter - A Love Story

You will soon be eighty-two years old. You've lost two inches in height, you weigh at most forty-five kilos, and you're still beautiful, attractive, and desirable. We have lived together for fifty-eight years and I love you more than ever. André Gorz begins his letter to Dorine, his lover, his life partner, the meaning of his life, with these words. While he says that he needs to reconstruct the story of their love in order to fully understand its meaning, he is careful to underline that this is a "promise", a "contract that will last a lifetime". It places the story of fifty-eight years of togetherness and struggle for coexistence, with its excitements, happiness and troubles, on an emotional as well as intellectual platform. While he considers marriage as a bourgeois institution and love as "the coming together of two people in the least social area", he discovers with Dorine the fact that love also has a dynamic and can be directed and adapted according to changing conditions... Gorz adopted Marxism with an existential approach, In his theoretical studies, he particularly focused on the issues of alienation and freedom. He became one of the most important thinkers of political ecology and libertarian socialism by criticizing the division of labor specific to capitalism and the irrational use of world resources. Gorz and Dorine, who throughout their lives chose not to remain silent against the injustices in the world but to fight, are forced to make a radical decision after Dorine's painful, incurable illness that lasted for many years: to use the right to end their own lives... Thus, in death as in life, they are forced to make a radical decision. They will not be separated, they will not have to "live after the other's death"... Gorz's letter appears before us as a hope, even a cry of rebellion, in today's world where the concepts of love and affection, like everything else, are emptied of their essence and consumed quickly. A shocking scream that touches our hearts...
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 64

Year of Printing: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Ayrinti Yayinlari

First Edition Year: 2007

Number of Pages: 64

Language: Turkish