In this brilliant and sobering self-portrait, Edouard Leve 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, Leve 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, Leve'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.
Title: Autoportrait
Subtitle:
Contributors:
By (author)
Lorin Stein
;
By (author)
Edouard Leve
ISBN 13: 9781564787071
ISBN 10: 1564787079
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Publication Date: 7/02/2012
Place of Publication:
Normal,
United States
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Modern fiction
Dewey Classification:
843.92
(DC21)
NBS Classification: General & Literary Fiction
Format: Paperback
Pages: 120
Height: 175mm
Width: 125mm
Thickness: 10mm
Weight: 132g