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Ethos auctorial et paratopie suicidaire chez Édouard Levé, Paris, L'Harmattan, 'Sémantiques', 2014. Stéphane Girard, Plasticien, écrivain, suicidé.

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'Beaux Absents: On Inventorying What Does not Exit - Review: Works by Édouard Levé Translated by Jan Steyn (Dalkey Archive Press, July 2015)'. Becker, Daniel Levin (August 6, 2014).^ Bernd Schwandt, 'Group Photography as a Means of Communicating with Groups,' in Fine and Schwandt (eds.), Applied communication in organizational and international contexts, Röhrig Universitätsverlag, 2008, pp.^ Magdalena Segertová, ' La photo de presse et ses stéréotypes selon Edouard Levé,' Czech Radio, November 28, 2003.

'2013 Best Translated Book Award: The Fiction Finalists'.

^ ' When I Look at a Strawberry, I Think of a Tongue,' Paris Review, Spring 2011, No.

^ a b c d Zadie Smith, 'New Books,' Harper's Magazine, May 2011, pp.

^ a b c d Hugo Wilcken, ' Happiness, Sadness, Death,' The Berlin Review of Books, March 8, 2010.

^ Jacques Morice, ' L'écrivain et photographe Edouard Levé est mort,' Télérama, October 22, 2007.

^ a b c Boris Daireaux, ' Edouard aux mains d’argent(ique),', November 2006.

2005: Autoportrait, P.O.L English translation 2012, Dalkey Archive Press, ISBN 1-56478-707-9.

2004: Journal, P.O.L (playing on journalistic stereotypes in the fashion of Actualités).

2006: Amérique, Léo Scheer, ISBN 2-7561-0064-1 (photographs from American towns sharing names with world cities).

2006: Fictions, P.O.L ('enigmatic' groups of black-clad people against a black background ).

2003: Reconstitutions, Philéas Fogg, ISBN 2-91 (bringing together the restaged photographs of Actualités and Quotidien).

2003: Quotidien (newspaper or magazine photographs, restaged with actors who are anonymized and in everyday clothing against a black background ).

2003: Rugby (models in street clothing posed in rugby positions sans ball).

2002: Pornographie (clothed models in pornographic positions).

2001–2002: Actualités (staged and anonymized photos playing on the stereotypes of press photography ).

2000–2002: Angoisse, Philéas Fogg (photographs taken around the city of Angoisse, whose name in French means 'anguish').

1999: Homonymes (portraits of ordinary people with the same names as famous people).

2013 Best Translated Book Award, shortlist, Autoportrait.

Gérard Gavarry's book Expérience d'Edward Lee, Versailles (P.O.L., 2009) takes as its inspiration one hundred photos by Levé. Reception and influence Ī chapter in Hervé Le Tellier's novel Enough About Love pays homage to Edouard Levé, who appears as the character Hugues Léger, and to his book Autoportrait, the introspective and fragmentary style of which is imitated in an extract of a book titled Definition. His final book, Suicide, although fictional, evokes the suicide of his childhood friend 20 years earlier, which he had also mentioned in 'a shocking little addendum, tucked nonchalantly.into Autoportrait.' He delivered the manuscript to his editor ten days before he took his own life at 42 years old. Autoportrait consists entirely of disconnected, unparagraphed sentences of the authorial speaker's assertions and self-description, a 'collection of fragments' by a 'literary cubist.'

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Levé traveled in the United States in 2002, writing Autoportrait and taking the photographs for the series Amérique, which pictures small American towns named after cities in other countries. Levé's first book, Oeuvres (2002), is an imaginary list of more than 500 non-existent conceptual artworks by the author, although some of the ideas were taken up as the premises of later projects actually completed by Levé (for example the photography books Amérique and Pornographie). Levé made abstract paintings but abandoned the field (claiming to have burned most of his paintings) and took up color photography upon his return from an influential two-month trip to India in 1995. Levé was self-taught as an artist and studied business at the elite École supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales.

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