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Autoportrait

Édouard Levé

4.23/5 (1883 ratings)

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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.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 117 pages

Publication:: 2012

Publisher:: Dalkey Archive Press

Edition:: 1

Language:

ISBN10:: 1564787079

ISBN13:: 9781564787071

kindle Asin:: B01IITGL16

Autoportrait

Édouard Levé

4.23/5 (1883 ratings)

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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.

Format:: Paperback

Pages:: 117 pages

Publication:: 2012

Publisher:: Dalkey Archive Press

Edition:: 1

Language:

ISBN10:: 1564787079

ISBN13:: 9781564787071

kindle Asin:: B01IITGL16

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