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"Wonderful . . . Toussaint is a genuinely funny writer." Kirkus Reviews...
Moving through a variety of locales and adventures, The Truth about Marie revisits the unnamed narrator of Toussaint’s acclaimed Running Away, repor...
"An original and significant writer, whose fiction can be as engaging as it is surprising." The Times Literary Supplement...
In Self-Portrait Abroad, our narrator—a Belgian author much like Toussaint himself—travels the globe, finding the mundane blended everywhere with ...
"An unnamed man travels to Shanghai, ostensibly on vacation, but finds himself increasingly unmoored from his life and identity. Caught in a jet-lag r...
Combining an intellectual's keen mind and a sports fan's heart, acclaimed novelist Jean-Philippe Touissant reflects upon what a lifetime love of socce...
A man vacationing in an island village believes himself to be under surveillance....
Depuis le début des années 2000, j’ai fait de nombreux voyages en Chine, je me suis rendu à Pékin, à Shanghai, à Guangzhou, à Changsha, à Na...
Marie s’appelait de Montalte, Marie de Montalte, Marie Madeleine Marguerite de Montalte. Marie, c’était son prénom, Marguerite, celui de sa gran...
Jamais, comme pendant la Coupe du monde au Japon en 2002, je n'ai éprouvé une aussi parfaite concordance des temps, où le temps du football, rassur...
Both a sense of urgency and a goodly amount of patience are required for any writer to produce a novel. Moving between these two poles, Jean-Philippe ...
For his first serious body of work, Harry Gruyaert made photographs of distorted TV images, covering events such as the 1972 Munich Olympics to produc...
A Novel
"To write of her that which has never been written of any other woman." And with these words from Dante, Jean-Philippe Toussaint sets out once more to...
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Swiss artist Jérôme Leuba (born 1970) has built a substantial corpus of "living" artworks, gathered under the title Battlefield, of installations, v...