Camera ScandinaviaBy Jean Philippe Toussaint Translated by Matthew B. Smith ISBN: 9781564785220 Publication Date: 11 01 2008 In this improbable love story, Toussaint creates a character who is obsessed with himself: how he does things and all the ways he might have done them, how he thinks, why he thinks the way that he thinks, how he might do or think otherwise. What happens? He takes driving lessons, goes grocery shopping, spends endless hours with an adorable
In fragmented prose halfway between the Old Testament and the playful stories of Julio Cortázar
: is not a continuum
"Polizzotti’s remarkable achievement is a welcome addition to this small but growing body of work on Roussel and serves as a reminder of an author and a novel too often neglected
"That Camera should have waited 20 years to find an English-language publisher is scandalous
Publication Date: 09/01/1999
while fundamental to the formation of the self
in their adoption of constraint-based methods
brings together history
and Oceania
one of them is a tribute to Flann O'Brien
Russian and Slovak
” (Nada Gasic)