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C'est vous l'écrivain

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Un texte magistral, dans l'intimité créative de l'écrivain Jean-Philippe Toussaint.Jean-Philippe Toussaint nous offre un texte profond sur la création littéraire : à travers le récit de son périple d'écrivain. Il mêle exploration psychologique et réflexions à portée universelle, et nous confie sa vision de l'écriture, entre recherche, persévérance et jaillissements.
Un livre d'une beauté stupéfiante, jalonné de documents personnels inédits.

159 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2022

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Jean-Philippe Toussaint

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Jean-Philippe Toussaint (born 29 November, 1957, Brussels) is a Belgian prose writer 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 2006 book La mélancolie de Zidane (Paris: Minuit, 2006) is a lyrical essay on the headbutt administered by the French football player Zinedine Zidane to the Italian player Marco Materazzi during the 2006 World Cup final in Berlin. An English translation was published in 2007 in the British journal New Formations. His 2009 novel La Vérité sur Marie won the prestigious Prix Décembre.

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June 5, 2022
Dans un essai intelligent, didactique, sincère et facile à lire, Jean-Philippe TOUSSAINT finit par nous faire croire que le métier d’écrivain est à la portée de tous. Nul doute qu’à l’issue de cette lecture de nombreux lecteurs retrouveront toute l’énergie et l’envie nécessaire pour se lancer dans l’écriture. Et c’est très bien ainsi.
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752 reviews155 followers
December 28, 2022
I probably should have read more than on JPT novel before reading this essay on how he writes - but it's readable without and pretty fascinating on the method (I love his fondness for the word 'encoche' too). Quick read; pretty personable.
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