Newspaper

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Edouard Levé, translated by Jan Steyn
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In Newspaper, Edouard Levé’s second “novel,” the acclaimed writer, photographer, and artist 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 of this "news" is quite sad, some is funny, but the whole serves as a gory parody of the way we have been taught to see our lives and the lives of our fellow human beings.

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Edouard Levé was born on January 1, 1965, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. A writer, photographer, and visual artist, Levé was the author of four books of writing―Works, Newspaper, Autoportrait, and Suicide, published in 2008, was his final book.
Jan Steyn is a South African translator from French and Afrikaans to English. His other translations include Edouard Levé’s Suicide and Alix’s Journal is a lecturer in Literary Translation and French at the University of Iowa.

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