About the Author and the Translator
EDOUARD LEVÉ was born on January 1, 1965 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. A writer, photographer, and visual artist, Levé was the author of four books of prose—Œuvres, Journal, Autoportrait, and Suicide—and three books of photographs. Suicide, published in 2008, was his final book.
JAN STEYN is a South African translator from French and Afrikaans into English. He is currently studying Comparative Literature at Emory University.
Copyright
Originally published in French as Suicide by P.O.L éditeur, 2008
Copyright © 2008 by P.O.L éditeur
Translation and afterword copyright © 2011 by Jan Steyn
All rights reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Levé, Edouard.
[Suicide. English]
Suicide / Edouard Levé; translated and with an afterword by Jan Steyn.—1st ed.
p. cm.
ISBN: 978-1-56478-628-9
1. Suicide—Fiction. I. Steyn, Jan H. II. Title.
PQ2712.E87S8513 2011
843’.92—dc22
2010044114
Partially funded by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency
Cet ouvrage a bénéficié du soutien des Programmes d’aide à la publication de Culturesfrance/Ministère français des affaires étrangères et européennes
Traduit avec le concours du Ministère français de la Culture – Centre national du Livre
This work, published as part of a program of aid for publication, received support from CulturesFrance and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Translated with the support of the French Ministry of Culture – Centre national du Livre