L'Europeo Magazine No. 99 | I Chose Death | October/November 2025
L’EUROPEO 99: I CHOSE DEATH MYSELF
What unites Socrates and Hitler, Van Gogh and Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf and Vladimir Mayakovsky? Certainly not the way they lived. What binds them is the way they left this world.
By suicide.
For millennia, taking one’s own life has been the subject of philosophical and religious disputes, cultural and anthropological analyses, a source of macabre inspiration for every kind of art, an act of political and social protest, and above all — a profound occasion to reflect on the dark shadows within human nature. Man remains the only creature in the natural world that consciously decides to end its own existence. Eros and Thanatos, love and death, continue to walk hand in hand through the ages and civilizations, remaining to this day the most terrifying, strange, and inexplicable trials each of us faces — ever since Adam and Eve first set foot on this errant earth.
And we shall follow them in one of the most powerful and moving issues of L’Europeo — a magazine dedicated to death that, in truth, celebrates life.
IN THIS ISSUE:
- Socrates, Seneca, Deleuze — when the great thinkers lose all meaning.
- From Yesenin to Mayakovsky — the black harvest among Russian poets.
- Tsvetaeva and her incredible tragedy.
- Music that kills — little-known legal cases.
- Michael Hutchence, too sensitive for this world.
- The lost laughter of Robin Williams.
- The legend of Sylvia Plath and her gas oven.
- Adolf, Eva, Joseph, Magda and other macabre German stories from the bunker and beyond.
- The complex path of Jules Pascin, which ended as unusually as the man himself.
- The peculiarities of the terms “kamikaze” and “harakiri”. Japan’s rich contribution to the subject.
- Osamu Dazai and Yukio Mishima.
- Cesare Pavese and life as a profession.
- The disappearance of Francesca Woodman.
- Putin’s suicides — an analysis of the (somewhat) mysterious suicide epidemic among leading public figures in Russia.
- Stories from and about Jeffrey Epstein.
All this and much more in L’EUROPEO 99: I CHOSE DEATH MYSELF
- • Language: Bulgarian
• Format: 22 x 26 cm
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