by Jean-Philippe Toussaint · Editorial Anagrama · tapa dura · ISBN 9788433908964
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«La televisión» is a contemporary fiction novel by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, published by Editorial Anagrama in hardcover (192 pages, in Spanish).
An art historian spends the summer in Berlin on a fellowship to write about Titian and Charles V, but decides to stop watching television. The narrator, a Belgian professor, suffers withdrawal syndrome and writer's block. The novel reflects on the opposition between writing and television and their ambiguous relationship.
Published in April 1999, it is part of the Panorama de narrativas collection (number 426). Translation by Josep Escué.
Suitable for the general public, especially readers of contemporary fiction interested in the work of Belgian author 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.
