Urgency and Patience

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext "Originally published in French as L'urgence et la patience"--Title page verso. Zusammenfassung 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."

Product details

• Authors: Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Jean-Philippe Toussaint
• Assisted by: Edward Gauvin (Translation)
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.06.2015
• EAN: 9781628970791
• ISBN: 978-1-62897-079-1
• No. of pages: 90
• Series: Belgian Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies