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Television
by Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Publisher Comments:
The amusingly odd protagonist and narrator of Jean-Philippe Toussaint's novel is an academic on sabbatical in Berlin to work on his book about Titian. With his research completed, all he has left to do is sit down and write. Unfortunately, he can't decide how to refer to his subject, so instead he starts watching TV continuously, until one day he decides to renounce the most addictive of twentieth-century inventions. As he spends his summer still not writing his book, he is haunted by TV, from the video surveillance screens in a museum to a moment when it seems everyone in Berlin is tuned in to Baywatch. One of Toussaint?s funniest antiheroes, the protagonist of Television turns daily occurrences into an entertaining reflection on society and the influence of television on our lives.
Reviews:
"[A] highly original commentary on modern society....This inventive tale is recommended."
Library Journal
"Ever so slightly redundant and attenuated, but most readers will be charmed nonetheless. Very entertaining indeed."
Kirkus Reviews
"Toussaint is an original and significant writer, whose fiction can be as engaging as it is surprising."
Times Literary Supplement (U.K.)
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