by Jean-Philippe Toussaint · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782707328984
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«Football» is Jean-Philippe Toussaint's essay on soccer, published by Les Éditions de Minuit in paperback (122 pages, in French).
Toussaint recalls his childhood in Belgium and his passion for soccer, and reflects on what that passion has taught him about time. He travels through the World Cups in Japan, Germany, South Africa and Brazil, and asks how soccer sustains and transcends nationalism. Memory, travel and philosophical essay combine to capture ephemeral beauty.
Originally published in 2015.
It is a book for soccer fans who want a literary perspective and for followers of Jean-Philippe Toussaint.
Jean-Philippe Toussaint is a Belgian novelist, photographer and filmmaker. His books have been translated into more than twenty languages and he has had his photographs displayed in Brussels and Japan. Toussaint won the Prix Médicis in 2005 for his novel Fuir, the second volume of the « Cycle of Marie », a four-tome chronicle published over ten years and displaying the separation of Marie and her lover. His 2009 novel La Vérité sur Marie, third volume of the cycle, won the Prix Décembre.
