Autoportrait

Name: Autoportrait
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ISBN: 9781564787071

ISBN-10: 1564787079

ISBN-13: 9781564787071

Edition: 2012

Authors: Edouard Leve, Edouard Lev, Aedouard Levae, Edouard Lev?

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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 '¬Ssincerity,'¬ 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,…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date: 3/25/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 120
Size: 4.90" wide x 6.80" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.286
Language: English