by Jean-Philippe Toussaint · Les Editions de Minuit · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782707319289
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«La salle de bain» is the novel by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, published by Les Editions de Minuit in paperback (144 pages, in French).
The narrator begins spending his afternoons in the bathtub, where he achieves a placid meditative stillness. What seems a simple domestic refuge turns into a journey from Paris to Venice and back, narrated with restrained prose and subtle humour.
Double edition that includes, besides the novel, the story «Le jour où j'ai rencontré Jérôme Lindon».
For readers of contemporary French literature and short novels with a meditative tone.
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.
