Naked
By: Jean-Philippe Toussaint ; translated by Edward Gauvin
Contributors: Gauvin, Edward, translator
Edition: First Dalkey Archive edition.
Series: Belgian literature series; Belgian literature series
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781628971408
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Women fashion designers; Fiction
Work titles: Nue
Description: ""To write of her that which has never been written of any other woman." And with these words from Dante, Jean-Philippe Toussaint sets out once more to deepen and broaden his depiction of one of contemporary fiction's most fully realized female characters: haute couturière Marie Madeleine Marguerite de Montalte. Having traced the ups, downs, ins, and outs of Marie's relationship with the unnamed narrator through three previous novels, Toussaint brings his customary nuanced rumination and nimble wit to this concluding volume, which takes us back to the Tokyo of Making Love and the Elba of The Truth About Marie, through jealousy and comedy, irony and tenderness, and the meticulous accretion of details that engross and distract us even as life's larger changes shift the assumptions by which we live" --
Notes: "Originally published in French by Les Editions de Minuit in 2013" -- Verso title page.