Self-Portrait Abroad
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…
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Weitere Autoren: Lambert, John (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-56478-621-0
- EAN: 9781564786210
- Produktnummer: 20448984
- Verlag: Dalkey Archive Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 80 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 134 KB
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