Search results for ""Author Jean-Philippe Toussaint""
Frankfurter Verlags-Anst. Das Badezimmer
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Frankfurter Verlags-Anst. Das Schachbrett
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Minuit Léchiquier
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Other Press LLC Emotions
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Rutgers University Press Soccer
Book SynopsisGrowing up in Belgium, soccer was Jean-Philippe Touissant’s life, a passion not shared by his bookish family. Now an acclaimed novelist, essayist, and filmmaker, he reflects upon his lifelong love for the game with an intellectual’s keen mind and a sports fan’s heart. What, he ponders, has a lifetime of soccer fandom taught him about life and the passage of time itself. Soccer takes readers on an idiosyncratic journey that delves deep into the author’s childhood memories, but also transports us to World Cup matches in Japan, Germany, South Africa, and Brazil. Along the way, it kicks around such provocative questions as: How does soccer fandom both support and transcend nationalism? How are our memories of soccer matches both collective and distinctly personal? And how can a game this beautiful and this ephemeral be adequately captured in words? Part travelogue, part memoir, and part philosophical essay, Soccer is entirely unique, a thrilling departure from the usual clichés of sports writing. Even readers with little knowledge of the game will be enthralled by Touissant’s profound musings and lyrical prose.
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Corre La Voz SL La melancola de Zidane Spanish Edition
Book SynopsisEl escritor muestra la gesta como un acto irreductible, sin ningún juicio moral, estético o político. 'Zidane observaba el cielo de Berlín sinpensar en nada, un cielo blanco de nubes grisáceas y reflejos azulados, uno de esos cielos ventosos inmensos y cambiantes de lapintura flamenca. Zidane observaba el cielo de Berlín sobre el Estadio Olímpico aquella tarde del 9 de Julio de 2006, experimentandocon una intensidad desgarradora la sensación de estar allí, simplemente allí, en el Estadio Olímpico de Berlín, en ese preciso instante,la tarde de la final de la Copa Mundial de Fútbol'
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Frankfurter Verlags-Anst. Das Verschwinden der Landschaft
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Rutgers University Press Soccer
Book SynopsisGrowing up in Belgium, soccer was Jean-Philippe Touissant’s life, a passion not shared by his bookish family. Now an acclaimed novelist, essayist, and filmmaker, he reflects upon his lifelong love for the game with an intellectual’s keen mind and a sports fan’s heart. What, he ponders, has a lifetime of soccer fandom taught him about life and the passage of time itself. Soccer takes readers on an idiosyncratic journey that delves deep into the author’s childhood memories, but also transports us to World Cup matches in Japan, Germany, South Africa, and Brazil. Along the way, it kicks around such provocative questions as: How does soccer fandom both support and transcend nationalism? How are our memories of soccer matches both collective and distinctly personal? And how can a game this beautiful and this ephemeral be adequately captured in words? Part travelogue, part memoir, and part philosophical essay, Soccer is entirely unique, a thrilling departure from the usual clichés of sports writing. Even readers with little knowledge of the game will be enthralled by Touissant’s profound musings and lyrical prose.
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Frankfurter Verlags-Anst. Der USBStick
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Dalkey Archive Press Urgency and Patience
Book SynopsisBoth 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 Toussaint here collects a series of short essays on the art of writing, both his own and that of writers he's admired, for example Kafka, Beckett, Dostoyevsky, and Proust. As Toussaint himself has said, "It's only natural for writers... to say a word about how they write and what they owe to great authors."Trade Review"I particularly recommend Urgency and Patience to everyone who dreams of writing, or starting out in the business. Really? Yes, because the novelist here reveals his methodology, his rules, tricks, mannerisms, constraints... and, as reading is inseparable from writing, his experiences as a reader..."--Le Journal du Dimanche
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Frankfurter Verlags-Anst. Die Gefühle
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btb Taschenbuch Sich Lieben
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btb Taschenbuch Nackt Roman
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Dalkey Archive Press Monsieur
Book Synopsis"Toussaint is a genuinely funny writer . . . small erotic moments are captured perfectly . . . makes me long for more by Toussaint." Kirkus ReviewTrade Review"Toussaint is a genuinely funny writer... small erotic moments are captured perfectly... makes me long for more by Toussaint."--Kirkus Review
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Dalkey Archive Press Camera
Book SynopsisIn 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.Trade ReviewThat "Camera" should have waited 20 years to find an English-language publisher is scandalous.' -Tom McCarthy, New York Times
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Dalkey Archive Press Self-Portrait Abroad
Book SynopsisEven on holiday, sex and death are Jean-Philippe Toussaint s constant companions...
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