Edouard Lev

In his second novel, Newspaper, the acclaimed writer, photographer, and artist Edouard Levé 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...

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 years earlier, Levé gives us, little by little, a striking portrait of a man,...