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Camera / Jean-Philippe Toussaint ; translated from the French by Matthew B. Smith.
- Title
- Camera / Jean-Philippe Toussaint ; translated from the French by Matthew B. Smith.
- Author
- Toussaint, Jean-Philippe
- Publication
- Champaign : Dalkey Archive Press, 2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PQ2680.O86 A8713 2008 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Smith, Matthew B.
- Description
- 122 p.; 18 cm.
- Summary
- "In this improbable love story, we meet a man 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, slowly yet methodically battles an olive on a plate. It is all simple and amusing until life intercedes: there is love, suddenly, and change, a flurry of emotion, and an unexpected incident with a camera on a ship. Only Jean-Philippe Toussaint - master of poignant deadpan - could write a novel at once so aloof and so touching, where we come to know our narrator intimately while knowing almost nothing about him."--Back cover.
- Series Statement
- French literature series
- Uniform Title
- Appareil-photo. English
- French literature series (Normal, Ill.)
- Alternative Title
- Appareil-photo.
- Subject
- Passivity (Psychology) > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Note
- "1st English translation".
- Includes interview with the author.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Camera -- Towards an infinitesimal novel: interview with Jean-Philippe Toussaint by Laurent Demoulin.
- ISBN
- 9781564785220 (alk. paper)
- 156478522X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2008012294
- OCLC
- 213408671
- SCSB-11091792
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library