The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Edouard Levé's fascinating Works, finally available in English, from Dalkey Archive Press.
The two other translated Levé-books are under review at the complete review -- and are the sort of dispiriting example of the frustrations of doing what I do here. There seems to be some interest in Levé -- at least to judge by the number of review of, especially, Suicide, as well as the number of online pieces more generally about him. But Google buries the Levé-reviews at the complete review far, far down on its results lists, and so the review of Suicide and Autoportrait have had, to date in 2014 (over nearly five months and 150 days) a total of 16 and 14 page-views, respectively.
Between 21 February and 12 April no one stumbled across or found either review at all. No hits for a stretch of some fifty day !
Mind you, these are outliers. Few reviews, except of the truly obscure, fare so poorly.
But these seem to be review-pages that people would be interested in -- and they're just not finding them.
Frustrating.
The two other translated Levé-books are under review at the complete review -- and are the sort of dispiriting example of the frustrations of doing what I do here. There seems to be some interest in Levé -- at least to judge by the number of review of, especially, Suicide, as well as the number of online pieces more generally about him. But Google buries the Levé-reviews at the complete review far, far down on its results lists, and so the review of Suicide and Autoportrait have had, to date in 2014 (over nearly five months and 150 days) a total of 16 and 14 page-views, respectively.
Between 21 February and 12 April no one stumbled across or found either review at all. No hits for a stretch of some fifty day !
Mind you, these are outliers. Few reviews, except of the truly obscure, fare so poorly.
But these seem to be review-pages that people would be interested in -- and they're just not finding them.
Frustrating.