Conceived and curated by UEA Professor of Contemporary Literature, Amit Chaudhuri, the 5th symposium in the Literary Activism series invited participants to account for the attractions of failing.
The symposium was hosted by the India International Centre, New Delhi, in partnership with Ashoka University, and took place in February 2020.
Here the Canadian novelist, essayist and philosopher Clancy Martin reflects on ‘suicide as a sort of failure’ in relation to his own failed suicide attempt and the self-destruction of Édouard Levé and David Foster Wallace.