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