Autoportrait (11 page)

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Authors: Edouard Levé

P
ATRIK
O
U
EDNÍK
,
Europeana.

The Opportune Moment, 1855.

B
ORIS
P
AHOR
,
Necropolis.

F
ERNANDO DEL
P
ASO
,

News from the Empire.

Palinuro of Mexico.

R
OBERT
P
INGET
,
The Inquisitory.

Mahu or The Material.

Trio.

A. G. P
ORTA
,
The No World Concerto.

M
ANUEL
P
UIG
,

Betrayed by Rita Hayworth.

The Buenos Aires Affair.

Heartbreak Tango.

R
AYMOND
Q
UENEAU
,
The Last Days.

Odile
.

Pierrot Mon Ami.

Saint Glinglin.

A
NN
Q
UTN
,
Berg.

Passages.

Three.

Tripticks
.

I
SHMAEL
R
EED
,

The Free-Lance Pallbearers.

The Last Days of Louisiana Red.

Ishmael Reed: The Plays.

Juice!

Reckless Eyeballing.

The Terrible Threes.

The Terrible Twos.

Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down.

J
OÃO
U
BALDO
R
IBEIRO
,
House of the Fortunate Buddhas.

J
EAN
R
ICARDOU
,
Place Names.

R
AINER
M
ARIA
R
ILKE
,
The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.

J
UHÁN
R
ÍOS
,
The House of Ulysses.

Larva: A Midsummer Night’s Babel.

Poundemonium.

Procession of Shadows.

A
UGUSTO
R
OA
B
ASTOS
, I
the Supreme.

D
ANIËL
R
OBBERECHTS
,

Arriving in Avignon.

J
EAN
R
OLIN
,
The Explosion of the Radiator Hose.

O
LIVIER
R
OLIN
,
Hotel Crystal.

A
LIX
C
LEO
R
OUBAUD
,
Alix’s Journal.

J
ACQUES
R
OUBAUD
,
The Form of a
City Changes Faster, Alas, Than the Human Heart.

The Great Fire of London.

Hortense in Exile.

Hortense Is Abducted.

The Loop.

Mathématique:

The Plurality of Worlds of Lewis.

The Princess Hoppy.

Some Thing Black.

L
EON
S. R
OUDIEZ
,
French Fiction Revisited.

R
AYMOND
R
OUSSEL
,
Impressions of Africa.

V
EDRANA
R
UDAN
,
Night.

S
TTG
S
ÆTERBAKKEN
,
Siamese.

L
YDIE
S
ALVAYRE
,
The Company of Ghosts.

Everyday Life.

The Lecture.

Portrait of the Writer as a Domesticated Animal.

The Power of Flies.

L
UIS
R
AFAEL
S
ÁNCHEZ
,

Macho Camacho’s Beat.

S
EVERO
S
ARDUY
,
Cobra
&
Maitreya.

N
ATHALIE
S
ARRAUTE
,

Do You Hear Them?

Martereau.

The Planétarium.

A
RNO
S
CHMIDT
,
Collected Novellas.

Collected Stories.

Nobodaddy’s Children.

Two Novels.

A
SAF
S
CHURR
,
Motti.

C
HRISTINE
S
CHUTT
,
Nightwork.

G
AIL
S
COTT
,
My Paris.

D
AMION
S
EARLS
,
What We Were Doing and Where We Were Going.

J
UNE
A
KERS
S
EESE
,

Is This What Other Women Feel Too?

What Waiting Really Means.

B
ERNARD
S
HARE
,
Inish.

Transit.

A
URELIE
S
HEEHAN
,

Jack Kerouac Is Pregnant.

V
IKTOR
S
HKLOVSKY
,
Bowstring.

Knight’s Move.

A Sentimental Journey:
Memoirs 1917–1922.

Energy of Delusion: A Book on Plot.

Literature and Cinematography.

Theory of Prose.

Third Factory.

Zoo, or Letters Not about Love.

C
LAUDE
S
IMON
,
The Invitation.

P
IERRE
S
INIAC
,
The Collaborators.

K
JERSTI
A. S
KOMSVOLD
,
The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am.

J
OSEF
Š
KVORECKÝ
,
The Engineer of Human Souls.

G
ILBERT
S
ORRENTINO
,

Aberration of Starlight.

Blue Pastoral.

Crystal Vision.

Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things.

Mulligan Stew.

Pack of Lies.

Red the Fiend.

The Sky Changes.

Something Said.

Splendide-Hôtel.

Steelwork.

Under the Shadow.

W. M. S
PACKMAN
,

The Complete Fiction.

A
NDEZEJ
S
TASIUIK
Dukla.

Fado
.

G
ERTEUDE
S
TEIN
,

Lucy Church Amiably.

The Making of Americans.

A Novel of Thank You.

L
ARS
S
VENDSEN
,
A Philosophy of Evil

P
IOTR
S
ZEWC
,
Annihilation.

G
ONÇALO
M. T
AVARES
,
Jerusalem.

Joseph Walser’s Machine.

Learning to Pray in the Age of Technique.

L
UCIAN
D
AN
T
EODOROVICI
,

Our Circus Presents …

N
IKANOE
T
ERATOLOGEN
,
Assisted Living.

S
TEFAN
T
HEMERSON
,
Hobson’s Island.
The Mystery of the Sardine.
Tom Harris.

J
OHN
T
OOMEY
,
Sleepwalker.

J
EAN
-P
HILIPPE
T
OUSSAINT
,

The Bathroom.

Camera.

Monsieur.

Running Away.

Self-Portrait Abroad.

Television.

The Truth about Marie.

D
UMITEU
T
SEPENEAG
,

Hotel Europa.

The Necessary Marriage.

Pigeon Post.

Vain Art of the Fugue.

E
STHER
T
USQUETS
,
Stranded.

D
UBEAVKA
U
GRESIC
,

Lend Me Your Character.

Thank You for Not Reading.

M
ATI
U
NT
,
Brecht at Night.

Diary of a Blood Donor.

Things in the Night.

Á
LVARO
U
EIBE AND
O
LIVIA
S
EARS
,
EDS
.,

Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction.

E
LOY
U
RROZ
,
Friction.

The Obstacles.

L
UISA
V
ALENZUELA
,
Dark Desires and the Others.

He Who Searches.

M
ARJA
-L
IISA
V
ARTIO
,

The Parson’s Widow.

P
AUL
V
ERHAEGHEN
,
Omega Minor.

A
GLAJA
V
ETERANYI
,
Why the Child Is Cooking in the Polenta.

B
ORIS
V
IAN
,
Heartsnatcher.

L
LORENÇ
V
ILLALONGA
,
The Dolls’ Room.

O
ENELA
V
OEPSI
,
The Country Where No One Ever Dies.

A
USTRYN
W
AINHOUSE
,
Hedyphagetica.

P
AUL
W
EST
,

Words for a Deaf Daughter
&
Gala.

C
URTIS
W
HITE
,

America’s Magic Mountain.

The Idea of Home.

Memories of My Father Watching TV.

Monstrous Possibility: An Invitation to Literary Politics.

Requiem.

D
IANE
W
ILLIAMS
,
Excitability:
Selected Stories.

Romancer Erector.

D
OUGLAS
W
OOLF
,
Wall to Wall.

Ya! & John-Juan.

J
AY
W
EIGHT
,
Polynomials and Pollen.

The Presentable Art of Reading Absence.

P
HILIP
W
YLIE
,
Generation of Vipers.

M
ARGUERITE
Y
OUNG
,
Angel in the Forest.

Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.

REY
OUNG
,
Unbabbling.

V
LADO
Ž
ABOT
,
The Succubus.

Z
ORAN
Ž
IVKOVIC
,
Hidden Camera.

L
OUIS
Z
UKOFSKY
,
Collected Fiction.

V
ITOMIL
Z
UPAN
,
Minuet for Guitar.

S
COTT
Z
WIREN
,
God Head.

Originally published in French as
Autoportrait
by P.O.L éditeur, 2005

Copyright © 2005 by P.O.L éditeur

Translation copyright © 2012 by Lorin Stein

First edition, 2012

Second printing, 2012

All rights reserved

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Levé, Édouard.

[Autoportrait. English]

Autoportrait / Edouard Leve ; translated by Lorin Stein. -- 1st ed.

p. cm.

“Originally published in French as Autoportrait by P.O.L. editeur, 2005.”

ISBN 978-1-56478-707-1 (pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN 978-1-564-78845-0 (e-book)

I. Stein, Lorin. II. Title.

PQ2712.E87Z4613 2012

843’.92--dc23

2011041213

Partially funded by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency

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