Autoportait is nothing less than an attempt to catalogue everything the author knows about himself, no matter how banal or revealing, with relentless objectivity. In one long string of declarative statements, the details accumulate with very fine grain, but the effect is disconcerting: the author comes no closer to exhausting his observations, and the idea that there is such a thing as a 'person' beyond the details seems more and more implausible. Despite its seemingly simple approach this book achieves a number of difficult things without once making a lump of any of them: our fascination never falters. Very enjoyable.
(July 2013)
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