Books by Edouard Leve and Complete Book Reviews

Suicide
Suicide
Edouard Levé, trans. from the French by Jan Steyn, Dalkey Archive, $12.95 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-56478-628-9
The suicide of a childhood friend—addressed here as "you"—elicits a reflective and dignified expression of wondering and grief in this last work by artist and writer Levé (1965–2007), who finished this novel 10 days before killing himself. The...
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Autoportrait
Autoportrait
Edouard Lev%C3%A9, trans. from the French by Lorin Stein. Dalkey Archive, $12.95 trade paper (117p) ISBN 978-1-56478-707-1
Simultaneously brilliant and banal, Levé's newest (after Suicide) is a vivid self-portrait/autobiography that lays bare the workings of his mind, the flashes of recollection that make up his life. Fears, observations, pets, favorite words, foods,...
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Works
Works
Edouard Leve, trans. from the French by Jan Steyn. Dalkey Archive, $13.95 trade paper (120p) ISBN 978-1564789037
Part experiment, part prank, the late artist Leve's mildly amusing novel is a list of 533 unrealized art projects. A visual artist and photographer up until his controversial suicide just days after completing his final book (titled Suicide), Leve...
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