Terri Saul recommends this Belgian writer. Saul explains that only two of this writer's works have been translated into English, Making Love and Television, which "capture moments of nauseating ambiguity, chilled ecstasy, and technology as a jarring and inescapable interruption to the normal circadian rhythms of sleep, cities, and sex. His novellas remind me of the short science fiction of Ray Bradbury, because of their succinct stabs at depicting worlds meant to exist only in fantasy, but that in reality, feel so close to home."
More about Jean-Phillippe Toussaint
+ Veronica Bond's review of Television at Bookslut
+ Saul's review of Making Love and Television
+ The Complete Review on Making Love
+ Television is the LBC's Spring 2006 Read This! selection
+ Toussaint's personal site (in French)
Sorry about the screwy footnotes in my review. If anyone knows how to translate footnotes from Wordlish to Bloggish, please drop me a note. I use Blogger and HTML for my blog posts.
Posted by: Terri Saul | December 20, 2006 at 01:41 PM