French Literature: Television: [A Novel] (Paperback)

from Paulagraph

Humorous and philosophical contemporary (1997) French fiction from Les Editions de Minuit, a publishing house born out of the French Resistance during WWII and noted for its catalog of avant-garde and, more recently, postmodern novels. La Television tells the story of a French historian on sabbat...

from DieFledermaus

This is a short, comic novella about an author who can't write and can't maintain his vow to give up TV. The tone is serious as the narrator contemplates the meaning of television and gives deadpan descriptions of the ridiculous situations he creates - meeting the head of the agency funding him w...

from DieFledermaus

This is a short, comic novella about an author who can't write and can't maintain his vow to give up TV. The tone is serious as the narrator contemplates the meaning of television and gives deadpan descriptions of the ridiculous situations he creates - meeting the head of the agency funding him w...

from stillatim

I wish I'd read this five or ten years ago; unfortunately, a book about giving up television (and thus about television as a social phenomenon) doesn't really have the same instant impact now, when "the television" is basically defunct (or at least defunct for anyone likely to read Toussaint's no...

from gwendolyndawson

This is an amusing novella about a man on a sabbatical in Berlin, hoping to work on his "monograph" about Titan, who gives up watching television. The book demonstrates the pervasiveness of television in society. A wry glimpse into an everyday, mundane, and delightfully humorous life, which is un...