A01=Jean-philippe Toussaint
Author_Jean-philippe Toussaint
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Product details
- ISBN 9781628970791
- Weight: 90g
- Dimensions: 129 x 177mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jul 2015
- Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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."
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. A graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop, Edward Gauvin was a 2007 fellow at the American Literary Translators Association conference, and received a residency from the Banff International Literary Translation Centre. His translations of Chateaureynaud have appeared in Conjunctions, AGNI, Words Without Borders, Epiphany, The Cafe Irreal, and Fantasy & Science Fiction.
