UK reviews:
‘A beguiling series of vignettes, by turns wry, amusing and disturbing, inspired by self-portraits by women artists and reflecting on the images they provoke. An illuminating survey of the author's various identities, in a fractured world, as mother, lover and writer.’ — Michèle Roberts
‘A new genre is born: the short selfie collection! Lively, inventive, compassionate, aching, morally complex and troubling, I loved these self-portraits more than anything I’ve read lately.’ — Lauren Elkin
‘The elements of Weil’s three-stroke episodes never quite match up, refracting rather than mirroring, hinting at unspoken questions to self, self- image and history in a brave, original and unsettling work.’ — Times Literary Supplement
‘Don’t expect a single illustration to punctuate Weil’s wry, stylish pages: the daughter of mathematician André and niece of philosopher Simone, paints her self-portraits sans brush and with the finest prose and precision. If her challenge to herself was to make the verbal visual, she’s met it magically,’ — The Jewish Chronicle
‘In her use of the term “selfie” to discuss works of art from throughout history, Weil brings together women looking at themselves from an exterior position and finds them conversing in a shared dialect across various periods and contexts. She rescues the selfie from its conceitedness, proposing that it can be become a starting point, and not necessarily an enclosed mode of self-regard.’ — Splice
Normal dogs, Lorna Scott Fox, The TLS, 30 July 2019
Selfies, Madeleine Kingsley, Jewish Chronicle, 26 July 2019
UK reviews:
Top reads 2019 | Non-Fiction, Granta, 23 December 2019
Selfies by Sylvie Weil (Translated by Ros Schwartz), Sophie Hanson, For Books’ Sake, 8 October
#RivetingReviews: Amanda Hopkinson reviews Selfies by Sylvie Weil, Amanda Hopkinson, European Literature Network, 30 September 2019
Selfies by Sylvie Weil, Book Word, 23 August 2019
’Smelling like a person sunbathing’, Katie Da Cunha Lewin, Splice, 12 August 2019 (SPOILER ALERT!)
Normal dogs, Lorna Scott Fox, The TLS, 30 July 2019
A list through the looking glass of a playful writer, Madeleine Kingsley, Jewish Chronicle, 26 July 2019
Selfies Book Review, Josh Rees, Buzz, 16 July 2019
‘A novel form of memoir’, Paul Burke, NB Magazine, 3 July 2019
Selfies, Paul Fulcher, Good Reads, 21 June 2019
The art of the self-portrait, Kaggsy’s Bookish Ramblings, 20 June 2019
Exquisite self-portraits in a digital age: Sylvie Weil, Selfies, Helen Vassallo, Translating Women, 17 June 2019
Other reviews:
Sylvie Weil has borrowed from new habits to create an unusual genre: the literary selfie, Zorosko Rosko Vacuum Player, 23 May 2019
Selfies, Thomas Koed, Volume Books, August 2019