Edouard Levé: Works South America a man rushes to a

a man rushes to a train station platform to meet a woman

" —Anthony Burgess

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Among other awards

Edouard Levé: Works South America a man rushes to a"A book describes works conceived of but not realized by its author." Like Suicide and Autoportrait, Works is another of Eduoard Lev'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 Lev later realized, most of which he did not. Works ranks with the fiction of Georges Perec for its seemingly limitless, ingenious, and