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The Foundational Act by Jon Repetti Édouard Levé, trans. Jan Steyn, Suicide Dalkey Archive Press, 100pp, ISBN 9781628976106, £12.00 A conceptual artist completes a novel titled Suicide and kills himself ten days later. The book becomes a cult hit after the act provokes a media frenzy. This sounds like satire, but it really happened — in France (where else?) — circa 2008. That novel, by Édouard Levé, was translated into stark, devastating English by Jan Steyn in 2011. It’s out in a new edition from Dalkey Archive this year. The circumstances of Suicide ’s publication immediately prompt question

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