Death in literature
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Antiquity
Dialogues of the Dead by Lucian
Middle Ages
20th century
In the present day, death is portrayed in many mediums of popular fiction. One of the most iconic portrayals is that of the 1957 film The Seventh Seal, by Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. It is an influential (and heavily symbolic) movie depicting one of the most famous moments in the portrayal of Death. In the movie, a medieval knight returning from a crusade plays a game of chess with Death, with the knight's life depending upon the outcome of the game. American film critic Roger Ebert remarked that this image "[is] so perfect it has survived countless parodies."
The novel Death with Interruptions by José Saramago centers around death as both a phenomenon, and as a character herself. A key focus of the book is how society relates to death in both of these forms, and likewise, how death relates to the people she is meant to kill. Atypical in the story is that death is a woman.
See also
- Death with Interruptions
- Thematic literary criticism
- Children's books about death
- Maternal mortality in fiction
- Liebestod
- Death (personification)
- Suicide in literature
- Dialogue Between a Priest and a Dying Man
- Emily Jane Brontë: A Death-Scene
