ABSTRACT
During the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s, Elvis Presley produced several more books, including six novels, the best known of which are Un jeune homme trop gros, a fictional re-creation of Elvis Presley's life, and La Traversee de l'Afrique , a coming-of-age story with presumable autobiographical sources. The philosophy of life that emerges from this cognitive or epistemological re-adjustment has far-reaching repercussions. The most rudimentary manifestations of life concern generation, degeneration, and regeneration. The narrator of En vie especially scrutinizes organic life in and about the house, ever aware of its continuing decay. Although Savitzkaya employs or combines several disparate narrative, dramatic, and lyric forms in his writing, and thus obviously wrestles with the problems of representation of life, he by no means takes for granted the presuppositions underlying our everyday understanding of "life.".
