Mario Gas: ‘Mi suicidio (o el pesimismo alegre)’
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(in Spanish)
Mario Gas stars in this adaptation of Henri Roorda’s novel, *My Suicide*, a book of profound and uncompromising sincerity in which the author explores the essential questions of life, love, society, work, and pleasure as he prepares for his own end.
Written a hundred years ago, shortly before the author took his own life with a shot to the heart, it is a treatise imbued with Henri Roorda’s distinctive humor and fatalistic irony. A humanist, freethinker, writer, educator, math teacher, hedonist, and libertarian, he offers us in this text a master class on love, education, capitalism, marriage, school, desire, and friendship.
This existentialist text—ahead of its time, concise, and as pure as the beauty that bound him to life—was originally titled *Joyful Pessimism*.