Edouard Leve

"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. A list of 533 projects, beginning with its own description--both likely and unlikely, sober and ridiculous; some of which Leve later realized, most of which he did not-- Works ranks with the ficti...

Edouard Leve delivered the manuscript for his final book, Suicide, just a few days before he took his own life. 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 investigation into the suicide of a close friend perhaps real, perhaps fictional more than twenty...

A brilliant and sobering self-portrait made up entirely of facts, and a companion to the harrowing book Suicide (published by Dalkey in spring 2011) .