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purstiltski's review
4.0
Whenever someone asked "What are you reading?" I wasn't sure how to respond. It's a very interesting piece. If I didn't know Levé took his own life, I would have read it differently. As much as I feel work stands, in many ways, independent of/with its author, he is always there holding it in his hands. There's just something to an "I" that I know is dead.
I like the simplicity that Levé desired in his writing. Some of my favorite fragments from today:
"I thank people easily."
"I try to write prose that will be changed neither by translation nor by the passage of time."
"In Vieux-Boucau I tried to surf one afternoon, without success, I had no intuitive sense of how it ought to be done, or of the pleasure I'd feel if I did it right."
"I have sometimes taken pictures knowing in advance that they would be bad."
"I do not know what prudence means."
"I recollect more than I collect."
I like the simplicity that Levé desired in his writing. Some of my favorite fragments from today:
"I thank people easily."
"I try to write prose that will be changed neither by translation nor by the passage of time."
"In Vieux-Boucau I tried to surf one afternoon, without success, I had no intuitive sense of how it ought to be done, or of the pleasure I'd feel if I did it right."
"I have sometimes taken pictures knowing in advance that they would be bad."
"I do not know what prudence means."
"I recollect more than I collect."
fitrisiain's review
4.0
"I am more interested in the neutrality and anonymity of our shared language than by the attempts of poets to make a language of their own, a factual report seems to me the most beautifully unpoetic poetry there is."
This feels like an extreme empathy exercise you would gladly bear cause you trust its innocence and honesty.
This feels like an extreme empathy exercise you would gladly bear cause you trust its innocence and honesty.
sloatsj's review
5.0
Loved this. Knew zilch about this writer/photographer, but now I know he hated useless directions, and neither loved nor hated himself.
mistydes1re's review against another edition
This book is great but, there was just too much informations in it at once and i couldn’t focus that much on a specific topic. Unfortunately, I started to get bored of it.
rachel_the_managing_editor's review
4.0
4.67 stars
I read this slim book without knowing Levé's fate and only discovered the end after I turned the last page to reveal the bio. I guess I should have known given the title of one of his other books. Does that change what I was originally going to write? ("A celebration of life in all its idiosyncrasies.") I don't think so, but it makes me want to read it again to see if anything changes. I liked this. I like the way his mind works on the pages. Because it's the accumulation of the small things, isn't it?
I read this slim book without knowing Levé's fate and only discovered the end after I turned the last page to reveal the bio. I guess I should have known given the title of one of his other books. Does that change what I was originally going to write? ("A celebration of life in all its idiosyncrasies.") I don't think so, but it makes me want to read it again to see if anything changes. I liked this. I like the way his mind works on the pages. Because it's the accumulation of the small things, isn't it?