Sophie Calle: True Stories: 66 Short Stories: New Edition

Sophie Calle's classic artist's book, True Stories, has been reissued with three new tales. The stories, which are accompanied by images, offer a fragment of life and are by turns lighthearted, humorous, serious, dramatic, or cruel. Calle's words are somber, chosen precisely and carefully, and offer up her own memories with humor, insight, and pleasure.

Format: Hardback
Length: 152 pages
Publication date: 01 July 2023
Publisher: Actes Sud

The latest edition of Sophie Calle's classic artist's book, "True Stories," features three new tales. First published in 1994 and regularly reissued and expanded since, this new edition returns with three new stories. Calle's projects have frequently drawn on episodes from her own life, but this book-part visual memoir, part meditation on the resonances of photographs and belongings-is as close as she has come to producing an autobiography, albeit one highly poetical and fragmentary, as is characteristic of her work. The tales-never longer than a page-are by turns lighthearted, humorous, serious, dramatic or cruel. Each is accompanied by an image; each offers a fragment of life. Calle herself is the author, narrator and protagonist of her stories and photography. Her words are somber, chosen precisely and carefully. She offers up her own memories-childhood, marriage, sex and death-with brilliant humor, insight and pleasure. By turns serious, hilarious, dramatic or cruel, these real-life stories represent a form of work in progress recounting fragments of her life.

ISBN-13: 9782330182465