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Autoportrait
Edouard Leve
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Description for Autoportrait
Paperback. Editor(s): Leve, Edouard. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 177 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136. 120 pages. A brilliant and sobering self-portrait made up entirely of facts, and a companion to the harrowing book Suicide. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 177 x 129 x 10. Weight: 136.
In this brilliant and sobering self-portrait, Edouard Lev? hides nothing from his readers, setting out his entire life, more or less at random, in a string of declarative sentences. "Autoportrait" is a physical, psychological, sexual, political, and philosophical triumph. Beyond "sincerity," Lev? works toward an objectivity so radical it could pass for crudeness, triviality, even banality: the author has stripped himself bare. With the force of a set of maxims or morals, Lev?'s prose seems at first to be an autobiography without sentiment, as though written by a machine--until, through the accumulation of detail, and the author's dry, quizzical tone, ... Read more
In this brilliant and sobering self-portrait, Edouard Lev? hides nothing from his readers, setting out his entire life, more or less at random, in a string of declarative sentences. "Autoportrait" is a physical, psychological, sexual, political, and philosophical triumph. Beyond "sincerity," Lev? works toward an objectivity so radical it could pass for crudeness, triviality, even banality: the author has stripped himself bare. With the force of a set of maxims or morals, Lev?'s prose seems at first to be an autobiography without sentiment, as though written by a machine--until, through the accumulation of detail, and the author's dry, quizzical tone, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564787071
SKU
V9781564787071
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Ref
99-2
About Edouard Leve
Edouard Leve was born on January 1, 1965 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. A writer, photographer, and visual artist, Leve was the author of four books of writing-"Oeuvres", "Journal", "Autoportrait", and "Suicide"-and three books of photographs. "Suicide", published in 2008, was his final book. Edouard Lev was born on January 1, 1965 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. A writer, photographer, and visual artist, Lev was the ... Read more
Reviews for Autoportrait
"I’ll go ahead and call [Autoportrait] a work of genius..." —Wayne Koestenbaum, Bookforum "Autoportrait is a delight the first time around and only gets better upon rereading or being read alongside Levé’s other works." —Words Without Borders "...a beguiling and sui generis self-portrait..." —The Paris Review