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Both 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."

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El 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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"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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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.

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Even on holiday, sex and death are Jean-Philippe Toussaint s constant companions...

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