Autoportrait 20th Century from shifting continents to tiny

from shifting continents to tiny heartbreaks

Acclaimed on its first publication

and Journey through America

This is a harrowing account—part Kafka

Autoportrait 20th Century from shifting continents to tinydouard Lev's unusual and uncompromising autobiography, translated by Lorin Stein . . . [continued] In this brilliant and sobering self portrait, Edouard Lev hides nothing from his readers, setting out his entire life, more or less at random, in a string of declarative sentences. Autoportrait is a physical, psychological, sexual, political, and philosophical triumph. Beyond "sincerity," Lev works toward an objectivity so radical it could pass for