Self-Portrait Abroad

Fiction & Literature, Literary
Cover of the book Self-Portrait Abroad by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Dalkey Archive Press
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Author: Jean-Philippe Toussaint ISBN: 9781564786210
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press Publication: May 11, 2010
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press Language: English
Author: Jean-Philippe Toussaint
ISBN: 9781564786210
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Publication: May 11, 2010
Imprint: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
In Self-Portrait Abroad, our narrator—a Belgian author much like Toussaint himself—travels the globe, finding the mundane blended everywhere with the exotic: With his usual poker face, he keeps up on Corsican gossip in Tokyo and has a battle of nerves in a butcher shop in Berlin; he wins a boules tournament in Cap Corse, takes in a strip club in Japan's historic Nara, gets pulled through Hanoi on a cycle rickshaw, and has a chance encounter on the road from Tunis to Sfax. Tales of a cosmopolitan at home in a strangely familiar world, Self-Portrait Abroad casts the entire globe in a cool but playful light, reminding us that, wherever we go, we take our own eyes with us...
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In Self-Portrait Abroad, our narrator—a Belgian author much like Toussaint himself—travels the globe, finding the mundane blended everywhere with the exotic: With his usual poker face, he keeps up on Corsican gossip in Tokyo and has a battle of nerves in a butcher shop in Berlin; he wins a boules tournament in Cap Corse, takes in a strip club in Japan's historic Nara, gets pulled through Hanoi on a cycle rickshaw, and has a chance encounter on the road from Tunis to Sfax. Tales of a cosmopolitan at home in a strangely familiar world, Self-Portrait Abroad casts the entire globe in a cool but playful light, reminding us that, wherever we go, we take our own eyes with us...

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