Monsieur: A Novel - Hardcover

Toussaint, Jean-Philippe

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0714529117 ISBN 13: 9780714529110

Publisher: Marion Boyars, 1991

Synopsis

Follows the daily life of a strangely innocent and passive young executive

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Meet Monsieur, your hero, a successful young executive in Paris whose daily life you will follow in precise detail. He is nothing if not unremarkable. Meet his secretary, his nieces, his fiancée and her parents, his neighbor whose scientific reports Monsieur unwittingly types out. What will happen? This and that. Monsieur will attend a party. He will babysit. But most of all, Monsieur will muse, and so will you muse, on everything from the night sky to a Rotring pen. And it will be very funny. Here Toussaint turns the ordinary into the extraordinary, an unremarkable anti-hero into a deadpan wit.

About the Author:

Jean-Philippe Toussaint is the author of nine novels, and the winner of numerous literary prizes, including the Prix Decembre for "The Truth about Marie". His writing has been compared to the works of Samuel Beckett, Jacques Tati, the films of Jim Jarmusch, and even Charlie Chaplin.

About this edition

• Publisher: Marion Boyars
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0714529117
• ISBN 13: 9780714529110
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 107