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Published for the first time in 1994 and regularly re-edited and enhanced,  True Stories returns again this year with four unpublished narratives related in Sophie Calle’s  familiar precise sober prose and photography. By turns serious, hilarious, dramatic or  cruel, these real-life tales represent a form of work in progress recounting fragments  of her life. There are six new stories added to the previous ones.        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. The slim, portable volume is divided into  sections: the first is composed of various reflections on objects such as a shoe, a  postcard or ‘the breasts’; the second, ‘The Husband’, of recollections of episodes from  Calle’s first marriage; and the third gathers a variety of autobiographical recollections.  Calle herself is the author, narrator and protagonist of her stories and photography;  her words are sombre, chosen precisely and carefully.   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Their acute and sometimes startling, sometimes endearing particularities merge into something almost like an eight-day-long dream. Many seeds of Calle’s subsequent works are embedded in The Sleepers: her exacting and transgressive methods of investigation, her cultivation of intimacy and remove, and her unrelenting curiosity. In this work, as she observes the sleepers, they observe her too—with reciprocal candor. 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