by Jean-Philippe Toussaint · Les Editions de Minuit · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782707310286
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«La Salle de Bain» is the novel by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, published by Les Éditions de Minuit in paperback (122 pages, in French).
The novel recounts the small events in the life of a self-centred and somewhat immature protagonist who wonders what or whom his abstract life should be committed to. The action moves from the stillness of a bathroom to Venice and back to Paris, in a structure Jean-Philippe Toussaint called the right triangle.
Jean-Philippe Toussaint's first published novel, by the Belgian writer of French language; it appeared in 1985 and won the Prix de la Vocation in 1986.
A short novel aimed at readers of contemporary French fiction and minimalist literature.
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.
