
Newspaper
Edouard Leve(Author)
Dalkey Archive Press
Will be published approx. on 12. November 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-56478-195-6 (ISBN)
Description
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 fictionalized newspaper articles, arranged according to broad sections-some familiar, some not-Newspaper gives us a tour of the modern world as reported by its supposedly impartial chroniclers. Much of this "news" is quite sad, some is funny, but the whole serves as a gory parody of the way we have been taught to see our lives and the lives of our fellow human beings.
Reviews / Votes
"A mixture of thoughtfulness and self-regard, honest interrogationand mere posing... the kind of writing that got us reading in the first
place." - Zadie Smith
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Normal, IL
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 177 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
134 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56478-195-6 (9781564781956)
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Persons
Edouard Leve was born on January 1, 1965, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. A writer, photographer, and visual artist, Leve was the author of four books of writing-Works, Newspaper, Autoportrait, and Suicide-and three books of photographs. Suicide, published in 2008, was his final book. Jan Steyn is a South African translator from French and Afrikaans to English. His other translations include Edouard Leve's Suicide and Alix's Journal by Alix Cleo Roubaud.