Camera (French Literature) - Softcover

Toussaint; Jean-Philippe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156478522X ISBN 13: 9781564785220

Publisher: DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS, 2009

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Review:

"An original and significant writer, whose fiction can be as engaging as it is surprising."

"Toussaint is a genuinely funny writer . . . . small erotic moments are captured perfectly . . . makes me long for more by Toussaint."

"The combination of the absurd and the conscious intellect recalls such other French-language writers as Raymond Queneau in a style that is elegant, erudite, and joyously superficial."

That "Camera" should have waited 20 years to find an English-language publisher is scandalous.' -Tom McCarthy, New York Times

About the Author:

Jean-Philippe Toussaint (born 29 November, 1957, Brussels) is a Belgian prose writer and filmmaker. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and he has had his photographs displayed in Brussels and Japan. Toussaint won the Prix M?dicis in 2005 for his novel Fuir. The 2006 book La m?lancolie de Zidane (Paris: Minuit, 2006) is a lyrical essay on the headbutt administered by the French football player Zinedine Zidane to the Italian player Marco Materazzi during the 2006 World Cup final in Berlin. An English translation was published in 2007 in the British journal New Formations. His 2009 novel La V?rit? sur Marie won the prestigious Prix D?cembre.

About this edition

• Publisher: DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 156478522X
• ISBN 13: 9781564785220
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 125