Edouard Levé: Works

"A book describes works conceived of but not realized by its author." Like Suicide and Autoportrait, Works is another of Eduoard Levé's bewitching reconceptions of what the novel can (or should) do. A list of 533 projects, beginning with its own description--both likely and unlikely, sober and ridiculous; some of which Levé later realized, most of which he did not. Works ranks with the fiction of Georges Perec for its seemingly limitless, ingenious, and comical inventiveness.--"A book describes works conceived of but not realized by its author." Like Suicide and Autoportrait, Works is another of Eduoard Levé's bewitching reconceptions of what the novel can (or should) do. A list of 533 projects, beginning with its own description--both likely and unlikely, sober and ridiculous; some of which Levé later realized, most of which he did not. Works ranks with the fiction of Georges Perec for its seemingly limitless, ingenious, and comical inventiveness. A lampoon of conceptual art--if not