Autoportrait -- Edouard Leve, Paperback

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, we find ourselves disarmed, enthralled, and enraptured by nothing less than the perfect fiction... made entirely of facts.

Author: Edouard Leve, Edouard Lev, Aedouard Levae
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 03/15/2012
Pages: 120
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 6.90h x 5.00w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781564787071
Award: Best Translated Book Award - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/30/2012