Yet at the same time it's a cause for happiness, because it's the final record of a writer who found, in the end, the correct vessel for his talents. At the end of his life, Levé had by no means exhausted his art., "The sadness of this book is overwhelming. Ironically, Suicide represents a new departure for Levé: his previous books could be considered conceptual conceits, whereas Suicide is something else, a purely literary work. Levé's art and life nonetheless converge, fuse, and end brutally together. 'You didn't leave any letters for loved ones to explain your death,' he writes, although Levé himself reportedly did. Leve's slender narrative possesses a near-clinical precision of detail, which functions as both a funeral oration and the chilling foretelling of his own death." - Publishers Weekly, Suicide is not a fictionalized account of Levé's death in some respects it is a negative image of it. Leve's slender narrative possesses a near-clinical precision of detail, which functions as both a funeral oration and the chilling foretelling of his own death." -Publishers Weekly, "The suicide of a childhood friend - addressed here as "you" - elicits a reflective and dignified expression of wondering and grief in this last work by artist and writer Levé (1965-2007), who finished this novel 10 days before killing himself. Hugo Wilcken, The Berlin Review of Books|9781564786289|, "The suicide of a childhood friend-addressed here as "you"-elicits a reflective and dignified expression of wondering and grief in this last work by artist and writer Levé (1965-2007), who finished this novel 10 days before killing himself. At the end of his life, Levé had by no means exhausted his art.
Hugo Wilcken, The Berlin Review of Books|9781564786289|, Suicide is not a fictionalized account of Levé's death in some respects it is a negative image of it. In Suicide, Levé's fragments become wonderfully sharp, conjuring tragedy in a few sentences." - Zadie Smith, Suicide is not a fictionalized account of Levé's death in some respects it is a negative image of it. "The sadness of this book is overwhelming.
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