{"product_id":"9781564788450","title":"Autoportrait","description":"In this brilliant and sobering self-portrait, Edouard Levé hides nothing from his readers, setting out his entire life, more or less at random, in a string of declarative sentences. \u003ci\u003eAutoportrait\u003c\/i\u003e is a physical, psychological, sexual, political, and philosophical triumph. Beyond \"sincerity,\" Levé works toward an objectivity so radical it could pass for crudeness, triviality, even banality: the author has stripped himself bare. With the force of a set of maxims or morals, Levé's prose seems at first to be an autobiography without sentiment, as though written by a machine—until, through the accumulation of detail, and the author's dry, quizzical tone, we find ourselves disarmed, enthralled, and enraptured by nothing less than the perfect fiction . . . made entirely of facts.","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47149984678128,"sku":"9781564788450","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781564788450_p0.jpg?v=1763788604","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781564788450","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}