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About Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Jean-Philippe Toussaint was born in
Brussels, Belgium, in 1957. He spent a large part of his youth in Paris,
where later he studied Politics and Modern History. From 1982 to 1984 he
taught French in Algeria, where he started writing. Incidentally, his
first book »La salle de bain« (1985; Eng. »The Bathroom«, 1989)
attracted the attention of Jérôme Lindon, head of the Paris based
publishing house Éditions de Minuit, which had published the most
important writers of the »nouveau roman« in the 1950’s, and he decided
spontaneously to bring out the book. Critics regard him as an exponents
of the »nouveau nouveau roman«. His minimalist style, which seems to
linger in phenomenological precision, always corresponds with a
subjacent layer: »Just as my books are void of sociology and politics,
philosophy and metaphysics are always apparent, even if not explicitly
named. They are always a reflection on time and death.« During a
scholarship in Berlin Toussaint wrote »La télévision« (1997; t: The TV).
The consequently subjective travel book »Autoportrait (à l’étranger)«
(2000; t: Self portrait (abroad)) was recently published, as well as
»Faire l’amour« (2002; Eng. »Making Love«, 2004).
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作者简介
让-菲利普·图森，1957年11月29日生于比利时布鲁塞尔，父亲是报社记者，母亲是书商。自1971年起，他定居法国。
在巴黎政治科学学院就读时，他开始接触文学，特别是福楼拜、卡夫卡、贝克特。1978年取得文凭后，他就开始了写作。
1982年至1984年，他参与了比利时政府援助发展中国家的协作项目，在阿尔及利亚的梅德阿中学任教两年。之后，他定居于法国的科西嘉省至今。
根据《晚报》作家吕克·奥诺雷的说法，让-菲利普·图森的两大爱好是波兰和足球。当然，他还有一个爱好就是写作。
他的《浴室》《先生》由午夜出版社分别在1985年和1986年出版，而1989年同一家出版社出版的《照相机》被认为是对图森的天才的最终肯定。
图森的作品还被改编成电影。1989年《浴室》被搬上了银幕，《先生》的摄制则是作者本人承担的。
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