Television
Subtitle: [a novel]
By: by Jean-Philippe Toussaint ; translation by Jordan Stump ; afterword by Warren Motte.
Contributors: Stump, Jordan, 1959-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: French literature series; French literature series (Normal, Ill.)
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Normal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 168
Description: "The self-possessed protagonist and narrator of Jean-Philippe Toussaint's novel is an acedemic on sabbatical in Berlin. He plans to write a groundbreaking study of Titian, but after a couple of months, all he's completed is "When Musset." He blames his obsession with watching TV for preventing him from writing more, so he decides to stop watching television all together (after the end of the Tour de France, of course). Still unable to write his book, he is haunted by television, 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 comic nightmares about the influence of television on our lives."--BOOK JACKET.