Naked (Belgian Literature) - Softcover

Toussaint, Jean-Phillipe

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1628971401 ISBN 13: 9781628971408

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2016

Synopsis

"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 deepen and broaden his depiction of one of contemporary fiction's most fully realized female characters: haute couturiere Marie Madeleine Marguerite de Montalte. Having traced the ups, downs, ins, and outs of Marie's relationship with the unnamed narrator through three previous novels, Toussaint brings his customary nuanced rumination and nimble wit to this concluding volume, which takes us back to the Tokyo of Making Love and the Elba of The Truth About Marie, through jealousy and comedy, irony and tenderness, and the meticulous accretion of details that engross and distract us even as life's larger changes shift the assumptions by which we live.

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Review:

"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."

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

About the Author:

Jean-Philippe Toussaint is the author of nine novels and the winner of numerous literary prizes, including the Prix Decembre for The Truth about Marie, which is available from Dalkey Archive Press. His writing has been compared to the works of Samuel Beckett, Jacques Tati, Jim Jarmusch, and even Charlie Chaplin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1628971401
• ISBN 13: 9781628971408
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 170