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The Bathroom

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First published in France in 1985, The Bathroom was Jean-Philippe Toussaint's debut novel, and it heralded a new generation of innovative French literature. In this playful and perplexing book, we meet a young Parisian researcher who lives inside his bathroom. As he sits in his tub meditating on existence (and refusing to tell us his name), the people around him—his girlfr...more

Hardcover, 128 pages

Published October 1st 1991 by Marion Boyars Publishers (first published 1985)

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Apr 17, 2009 Jim rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Having realized that he prefers reading in the tub, the protagonist of Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s The Bathroom decides to take up residence there, because, after all, “the bathroom was where I felt best.” This is a typical setup for the Belgian author of eight short but deliciously enigmatic novels: Toussaint puts his protagonist in an absurd position and describes it as if there’s nothing absurd about it at all. The author himself has characterized his work as being focused on the “not-interesti...more Having realized that he prefers reading in the tub, the protagonist of Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s The Bathroom decides to take up residence there, because, after all, “the bathroom was where I felt best.” This is a typical setup for the Belgian author of eight short but deliciously enigmatic novels: Toussaint puts his protagonist in an absurd position and describes it as if there’s nothing absurd about it at all. The author himself has characterized his work as being focused on the “not-interesting” and the “not-edifying.” This is especially true of his early novels, The Bathroom (1985) and Camera (1989), rereleased late last year by the Dalkey Archive Press (which has also published Toussaint’s Monsieur and Television). But what sounds like an exercise in navel-gazing pulses with a queer kind of intensity that makes reading Toussaint as easy as slipping into a warm bath.

He won’t get out of the bathroom: Jean-Philippe Toussaint.Our hero has inexplicably received an invitation to a gathering at the Austrian Embassy. He insists it’s a mistake but cannot stop daydreaming about it. He spends his days in the bathroom, eating pastries, listening to soccer matches on the radio, staring at the walls. “One crack seemed to be gaining ground. I spent hours staring at its extremities, vainly trying to surprise it in action.” Fed up, his lover, Edmondsson, tries to lure him out with sex. “Make love now? I shut my book composedly, leaving a finger inside to keep my place.”

Toussaint traffics in a kind of slow-motion situation comedy. What makes the humor so effective is that he never appears to be going for the gag. His work is frequently compared to the silent comedies of Buster Keaton, but you won’t find anything as inelegant as a pratfall in Toussaint’s oeuvre. He doesn’t construct plots; rather, he devises pantomimes in which his reluctant heroes grapple with dilemmas largely of their own making. Whether it’s the decision to suddenly leave the bathtub — and Paris — for a decrepit hotel in Venice or insulting a dinner party host’s style of dress, seldom if ever do Toussaint’s characters reveal what motivates them to behave as they do.

Read an interview with Toussaint's translators here.

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Apr 01, 2013 Kathy Cheung rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: everyone who loves to ponder over life and death

There is a 27-year-old man who loves to stay in the bathtub and ponder over life for the whole afternoon every day. He does not have a mental problem, yet, he is a mere reflection of our anxiety in this 21st-century modern bustling world. He represents the helpless and desperate attitude towards life yet no one can resist such desperation.

He is not a loser, instead, he is somehow a thinker or a philosopher. One day, he took a book someone left in the cafe in Venice. The book was the English vers...more There is a 27-year-old man who loves to stay in the bathtub and ponder over life for the whole afternoon every day. He does not have a mental problem, yet, he is a mere reflection of our anxiety in this 21st-century modern bustling world. He represents the helpless and desperate attitude towards life yet no one can resist such desperation.

He is not a loser, instead, he is somehow a thinker or a philosopher. One day, he took a book someone left in the cafe in Venice. The book was the English version of "Pensées" written by Blaise Pascal. He was fascinated by the quotation about death and desperation. From my point of view, all of his mentality and actions throughout the whole novel actually represent us, as modern citizens in this modern world, as well as our deepest fear: what are we exactly doing in our lives while we are all going to die one day? What to do with our short and desperate lives that are doomed? We cannot change anything because we are so small.

This little book may be plotless, yet it contains a lot of meanings and philosophy. There are few times that the narrator comes really close to offering the reader a reason for his bathroom behaviour. However, he can never be able to complete the sentence. This is because he does not, and will not, and cannot know the answer. He is hopeless. I think Toussaint is trying to reveal our fear of death and uncertainty by using a very relaxing, slow and peaceful tone. He talks about death and the hopeless feeling without fear. He also mentions a little about love as well by including Edmondsson in the story.

The narrator loves Piet Mondrian's paintings very much because he thinks they reflect a very still and immobile state. This immobile moment is very abstruct yet bears the state of death (not even dying because it is already still, it is not a movement at all). The Bathroom is itself a painting of Piet Mondrian. This little book is a representation of literary abstructionism. This book has a very abstruct story just like the abstruct lines in Piet Mondrian's paintings, yet it bears a very peaceful and still state and mentality just like the feelings Mondrian's paintings give you. Both Toussaint and Mondrian want to express the immobile moment which represents hopelessness and death with a very peaceful and calm depiction.

This is really a lovely book which can make you think. This book can make you feel very peaceful and calm yet somehow a little sad at the same time. After reading this book, you see how helpless and hopeless you are in your life but you will accept this fate peacefully without fear.

I strongly recommend this beautiful little book to you. (less)

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Apr 25, 2012 David rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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When a book is called The Bathroom and its back cover blurb suggests that it's about 'a young Parisian researcher who lives inside his bathroom,' I think I'm right in feeling cheated and betrayed when the protagonist leaves the bathroom on page six, never to return. Well, I'm sure he returns for practical visits, of course, but he no longer domiciles there.

I was actually looking forward to a short novel about living in a bathroom for the simple reason that the idea sort of appeals to me. Imagin...more When a book is called The Bathroom and its back cover blurb suggests that it's about 'a young Parisian researcher who lives inside his bathroom,' I think I'm right in feeling cheated and betrayed when the protagonist leaves the bathroom on page six, never to return. Well, I'm sure he returns for practical visits, of course, but he no longer domiciles there.

I was actually looking forward to a short novel about living in a bathroom for the simple reason that the idea sort of appeals to me. Imagine it... spending your leisurely days in a snug little windowless room with the steady hum of the overhead ventilation fan subsuming all noise from the outside world. It's a blissful and willful ignorance of the so-called real world. If you spend a long, indefinite period in a bathroom, you can be theoretically unaware if it's day or night, sunny or overcast, summer or winter—or even if some random variety of apocalypse has occurred while you were otherwise engaged, leaving only your tiny bathroom standing in a limitless horizon of charred ruins. A good bathroom bridles human awareness and brings its occupant into a richer communion with himself. (And please notice that I specified 'a good bathroom.' Not all bathrooms are good. Some, in defiance of all good taste and rationality, actually have windows, so that one can experience his utter smallness, smothered under the infinity of the sky, while dropping a deuce. Other bathrooms, sadly, lack fans—which speaks volumes of the builder's sadism, I think. I won't even dwell on those rare and wholly inadequate bathrooms that don't have locks on the doors. They are beneath proper consideration.)

Can you then imagine my great disappointment when I discovered that Jean-Philippe Toussaint's The Bathroom wasn't really about living in a bathroom at all? On the contrary, it's about some Belgian yahoo who spends much of his time doing banal things outside the bathroom and telling us about them in detail. I have a feeling this is all supposed to be very droll. (Or something.) This Buster Keaton-esque schmuck celebrates his own dullness and pointlessness in such a way that it should be ironic and (gag) whimsical. But let me ask you a question: Would you rather watch a Buster Keaton movie or read the belabored summary of one in a book? Keaton's humor is, by and large, derived from the visual. Toussaint tries to blend quirkiness and indolence to achieve a similar (written) effect, but all in all it just doesn't work. Even though the book is only (a large-printed, heavily-spaced) 102 pages, I shut the book in relief. Some short books are very, very long. (less)

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Jun 28, 2009 Brad rated it 3 of 5 stars

I bought this book expecting something funny. I, instead, found a story broken into numbered paragraphs about a gloomy Austrian who spends most of the book sitting around a hotel in Venice. The time is unclear, the exact reasons he heads to Italy are unclear and the exact nature of the relationship the narrator shares with Edmondsson (his wife) is also unclear. The story seems to be about peaceful meditation, albeit masquerading as a story about a depressive researcher searching for something (h...more

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Feb 08, 2011 Eric rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Fans of Jean Cocteau, Luis Bunuel, and Kobo Abe

This brief, somewhat pointless, Absurdist novel has no plot to speak of, but it sure is a lot of fun. The narrator, who has all but completely moved into the bathroom of his Paris apartment, gets a mysterious invitation to a reception at the Austrian embassy. Meanwhile, his girlfriend, known to us only as Edmondsson, hires two unemployed Polish painters to paint the kitchen, but they seem more interested in preparing a meal from some octopi they picked up at Les Halles. So naturally our hero dec...more

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Jan 09, 2012 Perry rated it 3 of 5 stars

It's about a twenty seven year old who sits in the bathtub, gets his kitchen repainted, has sex with his wife, play darts and travels around. Though these events make up the book I feel like that's not the real important part of this novel.

What's important about Tossaint's writing is that his narrators are always completely on the surface of things. They do a lot of things, but nothing really of their own accord; nothing sinks in.

But yeah, enjoyed reading the Bathroom. Liked it a little more th...more

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Mar 31, 2013 Phakin rated it 4 of 5 stars

อยู่ดีๆ เขาก็พูดขึ้นว่า เขาไม่เคยตั้งใจจะเขาไปอยู่ในนั้น ไปใช้ชีวิตวันๆ อย่างเอื่อยเฉื่อยและสงบเสงี่ยมอยู่ในห้องน้ำเล็กๆ อยู่ในห้องเล็กๆ ในฝรั่งเศส กับคนรักของเขา เอ็ดมอนดฺสัน และบางวันกับศิลปินเชื้อสายโปล ชืออ่านยาก สามสี่คน ที่หิ้วปลาหมึกสักกระชังมานั่งกินกับเขาในบ้าน จนวันหนึ่ง เขาก็ได้รับจดหมายจากสถานทูตออสเตรีย เขาเอะใจว่าน่าจะมีอะไรผิดพลาด เพราะเขาไม่รู้จักใครที่นั่น แต่เขาก็เลิกคิดถึงมันไม่ได้ เขาเริ่มไม่แน่ใจว่าควรจะทำอย่างไร แล้วอยู่ดีๆ เขาก็เดินทางไปเวนิส

อยู่ดีๆ เขาก็ขึ้นรถไฟไปง่ายๆ ห...more อยู่ดีๆ เขาก็พูดขึ้นว่า เขาไม่เคยตั้งใจจะเขาไปอยู่ในนั้น ไปใช้ชีวิตวันๆ อย่างเอื่อยเฉื่อยและสงบเสงี่ยมอยู่ในห้องน้ำเล็กๆ อยู่ในห้องเล็กๆ ในฝรั่งเศส กับคนรักของเขา เอ็ดมอนดฺสัน และบางวันกับศิลปินเชื้อสายโปล ชืออ่านยาก สามสี่คน ที่หิ้วปลาหมึกสักกระชังมานั่งกินกับเขาในบ้าน จนวันหนึ่ง เขาก็ได้รับจดหมายจากสถานทูตออสเตรีย เขาเอะใจว่าน่าจะมีอะไรผิดพลาด เพราะเขาไม่รู้จักใครที่นั่น แต่เขาก็เลิกคิดถึงมันไม่ได้ เขาเริ่มไม่แน่ใจว่าควรจะทำอย่างไร แล้วอยู่ดีๆ เขาก็เดินทางไปเวนิส

อยู่ดีๆ เขาก็ขึ้นรถไฟไปง่ายๆ หนึ่งวันก็ถึง เขาจองโรงแรม และเริ่มฝังตัวที่นั่น อย่างเอื่อยเฉื่อยและสงบเงี่ยม นั่งครุ่นคิดอย่างนักปรัชญาถึงชีวิตและความตาย เขาอ่านป็องเซ่ของเบลสฺ ปาสคาล พูดถึงภาวะที่ไม่อาจเคลื่อนไหว ที่ไม่ใช่เพียงการไม่เคลื่อนไหว ทว่าเป็นการสูญเสียความเป็นไปได้ที่จะเคลื่อนไหวไป เขาซื้อที่ปาเป้ามาปาเล่นอยู่ในห้องทั้งวัน และแล้วเอ็ดมอนดฺสันก็ตามเขามา เธอพยายามดึงเขาออกจากการนิ่ง ด้วยเซ็กส์ ด้วยรัก เขาเพียงผ่อนตามอย่างสงบ และปาลูกดอกอยู่อย่างนั้น มีบ้างบางวันที่เขาออกไปข้างนอก แต่ไม่นานนักเขาก็กลับมา เขาหลงใหลภาวะของการเคลื่อนไหวไม่ได้ ความนิ่งเฉย จนวันหนึ่ง อยู่ดีๆ เธอก็พยายามดึงความสนใจของเขาด้วยคำพูด และอยู่ดีๆ เขาก็ปาลูกดอกปักกลางหน้าผากของเธอ เธอไม่ตาย บาดเจ็บเล็กน้อย แต่ความรู้สึกของเธอไม่สำคัญพอที่ผู้เขียนจะต้องกล่าวถึง ประเด็นก็คือเขารู้สึกอย่างไรมากกว่า เขาไปส่งเธอกลับปารีส คนรักของเขา และกลับไปใช้ชีวิตในโรงแรมอีกครั้ง

อยู่ดีๆ เขาก็ป่วย ความเจ็บปวดเป็นสัญญาณเพียงอย่างเดียวที่ทำให้เขาตระหนักว่ายังมีชีวิต เขาย้ายจากห้องพักโรงแรมไปอยู่ในโรงพยาบาล ต้องผ่าตัดเล็กน้อย เขารู้จักกับหมอ เมียหมอ ลูกหมอ เพื่อนของหมอ เขาได้รับเชิญไปตีเทนนิส ทว่าอยู่ดีๆ เขาก็เริ่มสับสนและสงสัยว่าเขามาทำอะไรที่นี่ เขาใช้ชีวิตไปเพื่ออะไร อันที่จริง เขาไม่ได้ทำอะไรด้วยซ้ำ ไม่ได้เคลื่อนไหวเลยด้วยซ้ำ เขาจึงตัดสินใจจะกลับ อยู่ดีๆ เขาก็บอกลาทุกคนและเดินทาง กลับไปฝรั่งเศส กลับไปหาเอ็ดมอนดฺสัน ไปหาห้องน้ำ ที่แห่งเดียวที่เขารู้สึกอุ่นใจที่สุด เขาไปถึง และพบจดหมายเชิญจากสถานทูตออสเตรียอีกครั้ง เขาครุ่นคิดว่าควรจะทำอย่างไรกับเรื่องนี้ และตัดสินใจว่า เขาควรจะเสี่ยงออกไป ยอมให้ภาวะอันเงียบสงบเสี่ยงอันตราย เพื่ออะไรบางอย่าง เขาพูดไม่ทันจบประโยค อยู่ดีๆ วันต่อมา เขาก็ออกจากห้องน้ำไป

ไม่มีความกลัว เป็นเพียงการไร้ความหวังและความไม่รู้ ไม่รู้ว่าจะมีชีวิตไปเพื่ออะไร ทางเลือกก็คือ หนึ่ง เฝ้าสังเกตการณ์ สอง ออกไปสังเกตการณ์

ไม่ต้องสงสัยเลยว่า อย่างไรก็ตาม เราต่างก็เลือกเดินกันสักทางนั่นแหละ.(less)

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May 19, 2009 Stephen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2009

I read a description (somewhere) of Toussaint being something of a French Jarmusch and since then, I've had a difficult time trying to avoid imagining "Broken Flowers" era Bill Murray as the protagonist of each of Toussaint's novels - especially this one. He doesn't fit the character - who tells us he is twenty-seven going on twenty-nine - but it's really, really hard for me to escape this.

Contrary to some opinions, a lot happens in Toussaint's novels; most of the time, though, it's not typicall...more

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Dec 20, 2008 Tim added it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2008

Toussaint's getting a lot of attention lately because Dalkey just reissued three of his novels. This was Toussaint's debut, in 1985, and it's a quick entertaining read about the desire toward inaction. I liked it more than I remember liking Toussaint's Television, which I remember thinking was kinda meh (though I might like it more now, having enjoyed The Bathroom a lot).

Incidentally, it took me less than two hours to read this book, but in that time two people looked hard at the cover (by Nicho...more

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May 30, 2010 Stephen rated it 4 of 5 stars

This small Toussaint novel engages the reader for reasons hard to explain. The narrator is something of a loser who sets forth a whole series of strange and sometimes quite humorous events in a flat, direct style. Moreover, an exact repetition of several lines (p. 16 & 131 in this edition), plus an entirely unbelievable event towards the end of the novel, in which the narrator embeds a dart in his girlfriend's forehead, raises the likelihood that the entire central section of the novel is re...more

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Feb 18, 2010 Saxon rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Story about a weird, gloomy Austrian who spends most of his time either in the bathroom of his Paris apartment or in a decrepit Venice hotel. Nice premise, boring story. I laughed a few times and I get the subtle Jacques Tati-esque humor that attempts to play off the absurdities of modern life but, I wasn't feeling it. Toussaint's writing(or the translation of his writing) is so simple and plain that it becomes easily forgettable rather than the effectual interplay it attempts with the themes of...more

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Oct 25, 2012 Kimmo rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I gave up trying to appreciate this offering when the narrator throws a dart to a woman's face, and instead of there being some kind of consequence, there is none. The passage finally caused me to give in to a sarcastic feeling I had felt bubbling underneath for the entire duration of the book, a sense of the author trying to imitate a cool French existential nihilism in the style of Albert Camus. There is nothing about literature that I resent more than that feeling of being made to feel snide...more

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May 19, 2011 Eric rated it 4 of 5 stars

The Bathroom is a literary amuse bouche - mysterious, light and airy. It arrives unexpectedly and is consumed in the blink of an eye, leaving a mild satiation and craving for more. Monsieur Toussaint combines the whimsy of Queneau with a Proustian indolence, albeit with much more brevity. An inconsequential and entertaining diversion.

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Feb 08, 2013 Zoe Ballesteros rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This isn't the laugh-out-loud novel that the description suggests, but it is good for a few chuckles if you enjoy the oddity that is life. More accurately, it's the struggle with the very existence of all things and the fatality of all things and that crazy time between when someone is over-thinking, "What does it all mean?"

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Apr 07, 2013 Emmett rated it 2 of 5 stars

This is a slim novel that's also slight. Third-rate Beckett, second-rate Barthelme, full of "postmodern" playfulness with nothing at stake. The worst kind of "experimentalism". Toussaint is a funny writer, and I've got time for his later work, but his early novels just aren't very good.

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Sep 10, 2011 Daniel rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Sep 15, 2010 Emilia rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

When I began to spend my afternoons in the bathroom, I had no intentions of moving into it; no, I would pass some pleasant hours there, meditating in the bathtub, sometimes dressed, othertimes naked.

12. Images without sounds are powerless to express horror. If the last few seconds of life of the ninety billion humans who have died since the earth was formed could be filmed and shown in succession in a movie theater, the spectacle would, I think, soon pall. If on the other hand the final osunds...more

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Nov 08, 2009 Cherie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: fiction

A young man decides to live in his bathroom, and at one point, takes a journey to Venice . In a way, I found this poignantly postmodern yet existentialist. It's about the language, the movement within our narrator, and not what happens necessarily.

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May 04, 2008 Adam rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: dalkey-archive

Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s first novel is a good example of the quirky, whimsical, mostly-plot-free narrative he’s known for. I’m not especially blown away by Toussaint’s stories, so what is it about this guy? Well, I think you really read Toussaint for the unexpected laughs that he pulls out of you on a regular basis. And the books are so short, which, I’m sure, is key to this type of writing. Oh, and this novel has one shocking moment in it that’s unlike anything in later Toussaint books.

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Nov 13, 2007 Michael rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: kafka, beckett fans

Shelves: alive

a pretty fun book. A man wants to stay in his bathroom. There are some Polish artists painting his kitchen and trying to prep an octopus for dinner. Then the man moves to Venice and buys some underwear and tennis balls and hangs out and has slightly bound up sex in his room.

I think it's the point, but I wish there was something more pulling the story along than the ridiculously 'French' voice. I loved it, the voice is so immediate and fun, but didn't race through. Made me want to read Televisio...more

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Apr 28, 2012 Brian rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Jan 06, 2011 Olivia marked it as to-read

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Feb 16, 2009 Peter rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Kinda meh. Clever and well-done, but it didn't really touch me.

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Nov 04, 2010 Andrew marked it as to-read

Liked his short story in Best European Fiction 2010

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Oct 25, 2012 Sidik Fofana rated it 3 of 5 stars

SIX WORD REVIEW: Dry wit, but he leaves bathroom?

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Aug 01, 2012 M. rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, fiction

My first Toussaint, really great and fun.

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Aug 15, 2009 Treena rated it 4 of 5 stars

Darkly comic, like a French Magnus Mills.

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Apr 08, 2013 Martyn rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2013, experimental, novellas, fiction, à-l-origine-en-français

Hey, it's French, it's experimental, it's funny and it had post-modern, bijou chapterettes - it's my thing man.

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Jan 07, 2013 Patrice Showers rated it 5 of 5 stars

Quirky. Beautiful writing.

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Dec 29, 2012 Dave Proff rated it 5 of 5 stars

Really enjoyed it.

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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 Médicis in 2005 for his novel Fuir. The 2006 book La mélancolie de Zidane (Paris: Minuit, 2006) is a lyrical essay on the headbutt administered by the...more

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