"A book describes works conceived of but not realized by its author." Like Suicide and Autoportrait, Works is another of Eduoard Leve's bewitching reconceptions of what the novel can (or should) do
In his second "novel," Newspaper, the acclaimed writer, photographer, and artist Edouard Leve made perhaps his most radical attempt to remove himself from his own work. Made up of fi
A forlorn traveler is taken in by three orphans: The first, orphaned by history, is in mourning for her father, murdered by the Nazis. The second, orphaned by pathology, has a rare disease, and is fac
Suicide cannot be read as simply another novel—it is, in a sense, the author’s own oblique, public suicide note, a unique meditation on this most extreme of refusals. Presenting itself as an investiga
