Autoportrait - Brossura

Lev, Edouard

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1564787079 ISBN 13: 9781564787071

Casa editrice: Dalkey Archive Pr, 2012

Riassunto

In this brilliant and sobering self-portrait, Edouard Levé 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,” Levé 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, Levé’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.

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L'autore:

Edouard Levé was born on January 1, 1965 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. A writer, photographer, and visual artist, Levé was the author of four books of prose uvres, Journal, Autoportrait, and Suicide and three books of photographs. Lorin Stein is former senior editor at Farrar, Straus, and Giroux where he worked closely with many notable authors. He has also worked on translations of Roberto Bolaño, as well as personally translating the fiction of Grégoire Bouillier. He is the editor of the Paris Review.

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• Editore: Dalkey Archive Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1564787079
• ISBN 13: 9781564787071
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 117