The Bathroom

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 "An original and significant writer, whose fiction can be as engaging as it is surprising." The Times Literary Supplement Zusammenfassung 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 girlfriend, Edmondsson, the Polish painters in his kitchen—each in their own way further enables his peculiar lifestyle, supporting his eccentric quest for immobility. But an invitation to the Austrian embassy shakes up his stable world, prompting him to take a risk and leave his bathroom . . .

Product details

• Authors: Nancy (TRN)/ De Amphoux, Jean Toussaint, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Jean-Philippe/ Amphoux Toussaint
• Assisted by: Nancy Amphoux (Translation), Paul De Angelis (Translation), Paul Deangelis (Translation)
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 17.11.2008
• EAN: 9781564785183
• ISBN: 978-1-56478-518-3
• No. of pages: 102
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 190 mm x 8 mm
• Series: Belgian Literature Series; Belgian Literature Series; French Literature
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature