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Édouard Levé (January 1, 1965, Neuilly-sur-Seine[1] – October 15, 2007, Paris) was a French writer, artist and photographer.


Early career


Levé was self-taught as an artist and studied business at the elite École supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales. He began painting in 1991.[2] Levé made abstract paintings but abandoned the field (claiming to have burned most of his paintings) and took up color photography[3] upon his return from an influential two-month trip to India in 1995.[2]


Books and photographs


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).[4][5]

Levé traveled in the United States in 2002, writing Autoportrait and taking the photographs for the series Amérique,[6] which pictures small American towns named after cities in other countries.[4][5] Autoportrait consists entirely of disconnected, unparagraphed sentences of the authorial speaker's assertions and self-description,[4][5] a "collection of fragments" by a "literary cubist."[2]

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."[5] He delivered the manuscript to his editor ten days before he took his own life at 42 years old.[4]


Reception and influence


A 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.

Gérard Gavarry's book Expérience d'Edward Lee, Versailles (P.O.L., 2009) takes as its inspiration one hundred photos by Levé.


Awards and honors



Works by Levé


Photography series
Other books

Notes


  1. "Edouard Levé". The White Review. Retrieved January 30, 2022.
  2. Boris Daireaux, "Edouard aux mains d’argent(ique)," Evene.fr, November 2006
  3. Jacques Morice, "L'écrivain et photographe Edouard Levé est mort," Télérama, October 22, 2007
  4. Hugo Wilcken, "Happiness, Sadness, Death," The Berlin Review of Books, March 8, 2010
  5. Zadie Smith, "New Books," Harper's Magazine, May 2011, pp. 67–70.
  6. "When I Look at a Strawberry, I Think of a Tongue," Paris Review, Spring 2011, No. 196
  7. Chad W. Post (April 10, 2013). "2013 Best Translated Book Award: The Fiction Finalists". Three Percent. Retrieved April 11, 2013.
  8. Magdalena Segertová, "La photo de presse et ses stéréotypes selon Edouard Levé," Czech Radio, November 28, 2003
  9. 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. 31f.

Further reading


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




На других языках

- [en] Édouard Levé

[fr] Édouard Levé

Édouard Levé, né le 1er janvier 1965 à Neuilly-sur-Seine et mort le 15 octobre 2007 à Paris 11e, est un artiste et écrivain français.

[ru] Леве, Эдуар

Эдуар Леве (фр. Édouard Levé, 1 января 1965 – 15 октября 2007, Париж) — французский писатель, художник и фотограф .


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