Monologue "Joyful Pessimism (My Suicide)" by Henri Roorda

In My Suicide, a book of profound and decisive sincerity, the Belgian anarchist pedagogue Henri Roorda (1870-1925) dissects the essential questions of life, love, society, work, pleasure..., while preparing his end. This existentialist text avant la lettre, concise, as pure as the beauty that linked its author to life, is an allegation imbued with humor and fatalistic irony. Henri Roorda, a unique mathematics professor, follower of the ideas of the Modern School of France,…