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Camera
In this improbable love story, Toussaint creates a character who is obsessed with himself: how he does things and all the ways he might have done them, how he thinks, why he thinks the way that he thinks, how he might do or think otherwise. What happens? He takes driving lessons, goes grocery shopping, spends endless hours with an adorable employee of the driving school he attends. And though he is aloof, though caught up in his own actions and in the movement of his own thoughts--he somehow emerges as surprisingly insightful and also very funny. In Toussaint's touching novel, we come to know this character intimately and yet know almost nothing about him. These two extremes, existing together, are at the heart of Toussaint's remarkable style.
Book Details
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Publish Date: Nov 1st, 2008
- Pages: 122
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 6.96in - 5.04in - 0.38in - 0.30lb
- EAN: 9781564785220
- Categories: • Literary
About the Author
Toussaint, Jean-Philippe: - 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". His writing has been compared to the works of Samuel Beckett, Jacques Tati, the films of Jim Jarmusch, and even Charlie Chaplin.
Smith, Matthew B.: - 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". His writing has been compared to the works of Samuel Beckett, Jacques Tati, the films of Jim Jarmusch, and even Charlie Chaplin.
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What people are saying
Granta
@GrantaMag
2 years
The Quarterly Magazine of New Writing.
‘Writing about the mundane is difficult, the obvious trap being that what you make is boring.’ Best Book of 1988: Juliet Jacques on Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s Camera, and the novel's expression of anxiety mixed with mundanity. https://t.co/rgULYMBkTQ
Praise for this book
"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
What people are saying
Granta
@GrantaMag
2 years
The Quarterly Magazine of New Writing.
‘Writing about the mundane is difficult, the obvious trap being that what you make is boring.’ Best Book of 1988: Juliet Jacques on Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s Camera, and the novel's expression of anxiety mixed with mundanity. https://t.co/rgULYMBkTQ