Édouard Levé

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Édouard Levé


Born
in France
January 01, 1965

Died
October 15, 2007

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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. 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's first book, Oeuvres (2002), is an imaginary list of more than 500 books by the author, not actually written, although some of the items were taken up as the premisses of later books actually written and published by Levé (for example the photography books Amérique and Pornographie).

Levé traveled in the United States in 2002, writing Autoportrait and taking the photographs for the series
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Average rating: 4.12 · 8,687 ratings · 1,242 reviews · 17 distinct worksSimilar authors
Suicide

4.11 avg rating — 5,262 ratings — published 2008 — 38 editions
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Autoportrait

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4.21 avg rating — 3,059 ratings — published 2005 — 34 editions
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Works

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3.68 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 2002 — 6 editions
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Newspaper

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3.33 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions
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Fictions

4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2006
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Amérique

4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2006
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Inéditos

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Reconstitutions ; Angoisse

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Reconstitutions

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“You were said to have died of suffering. But there was not
as much sadness in you as there is now in those who
remember you. You died because you searched for
happiness at the risk of finding the void.”
Édouard Levé, Suicide

“You were not surprised to find yourself ill adapted to the world, but it did surprise you that the world had produced a being who now lived in it as a foreigner. Do plants commit suicide? Do animals die of helplessness? They either function or disappear. You were perhaps a weak link, an accidental evolutionary dead end, a temporary anomaly not destined to burgeon again.”
Edouard Levé, Suicide

“You did not fear death. You stepped in its path, but without really desiring it: how can one desire something one doesn’t know? You didn’t deny life but affirmed your taste for the unknown, betting that if something existed on the other side, it would be better than here.”
Edouard Levé, Suicide

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