Autoportrait 20th Century Valent Kosima is a retiree

Valent Kosima is a retiree living quietly yet discontentedly with his TV-addicted wife

a Robinson Crusoe-like figure who inhabits a twilight world where civilization has collapsed

" - David Cozy

and unembroidered prose

" Analyzing both Bronte's novel and Balthus's lifelong fascination with it

Autoportrait 20th Century Valent Kosima is a retireedouard Lev's unusual and uncompromising autobiography, translated by Lorin Stein . . . [continued] In this brilliant and sobering self portrait, Edouard Lev hides nothing from his readers, setting out his entire life, more or less at random, in a string of declarative sentences. Autoportrait is a physical, psychological, sexual, political, and philosophical triumph. Beyond "sincerity," Lev works toward an objectivity so radical it could pass for