Jean-Philippe Toussaint

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Jean-Philippe Toussaint (born November 29, 1957 in Brussels ) is a Belgian writer and director .

Life

Jean-Philippe Toussaint was born the son of the journalist Yvon Toussaint and the bookseller Monique Lanskoronskis. From 1971 he lived in Paris . In 1973 he won the Scrabble Junior World Championship in Cannes . In 1978 he received a diploma from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris , a year later his DEA (Diplome d'études approfondies) in modern history. He began to write while still a student. He wrote a play and a novel in collaboration with a friend , as well as another novel which he sent to Alain Robbe-Grillet , but which was never published.

In order to avoid military service , he applied for a job as a French teacher in Médéa ( Algeria ) and worked from 1982 to 1984. There he met Madeleine Santandréa, both married in 1983. The marriage resulted in a son and a daughter. During this time he wrote the novel La salle de bain , which was initially rejected by several publishers. A copy of his manuscript, which he had sent Alain Robbe-Grillet, finally came into the hands of Jérôme Lindon, the publisher of the Éditions de Minuit, who published it in 1985. Toussaint hadn't written to this publisher because it seemed to him to be “franchement trop intellectuelle”.

The novel Monsieur followed in 1986 . In 1987 he wrote the screenplay for La salle de bain with John Lvoff , who also directed the film . L'appareil-photo was released two years later, roughly at the same time as the film adaptation of Monsieur , which Toussaint himself directed for the first time. In 1990 he spent a few months in Madrid at the invitation of the Villa Médicis Hors les Murs , working on the novel La Réticence , which came out in 1991. La Réticence was created in a darkened room, at the same time as the attempt to finally quit smoking. In 1992 he filmed his novel L'appareil-photo under the title La Sévillane . The following year he was invited by the DAAD for a year-long stay in Berlin, where he made the film Berlin 10H46 and began working on the novel La télévision . In 1995 Toussaint filmed his previously unpublished screenplay La Patinoire , the shooting was broadcast live on the Internet. In 1996 he accepted an invitation from Villa Kujoyama to Kyōto for a longer stay, and in 1997 his novel La télévision was published . In 2000 Toussaint published his "travel book" autoportrait (à l'ètranger) . The 2002 novel Faire l'Amour became a bestseller in France. In 2006 Toussaint received one of the most important literary prizes in France, the " Prix ​​Médicis ", for the novel Fuir . Faire l'Amour, Fuir, La vérité sur Marie and Nue form a four-part novel cycle, which focuses on the relationship between the narrator and the fashion designer Marie Madeleine Marguerite de Montalte. The action takes place in cities in Japan and China, as well as the island of Elba.

In his volume of essays The Urgency and Patience , Toussaint describes his development as a writer and his reading. The book was number 1 on the SWR best list and received mostly very positive reviews in Germany.

In addition to his work as a writer and director, Toussaint has now also presented his photographic work in several exhibitions (primarily in Japan and France). He lives in his hometown and on the island of Corsica .

Works

  • La salle de bain . Roman, 1985
  • Monsieur . Roman, 1986
  • L'appareil-photo . Novel, 1988
    • The camera. Translated by Joachim Unseld, Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 2005 ISBN 3-627-00128-1
  • La réticence . Roman, 1991
    • The bait. Translated by Achim Russer. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1993 ISBN 3-518-40564-0
  • La télévision . Roman, 1997
    • Watch TV. Translated by Bernd Schwibs. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2001 ISBN 3-518-39699-4
  • Autoportrait (à l´Étranger) . Travel report, 1999
    • Self-portrait (in a foreign place). Translated by Bernd Schwibs. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 2001 ISBN 3-627-00083-8 .
  • Faire l'amour . Roman, 2002
    • To love each other. Translated by Bernd Schwibs. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 2003 ISBN 3-627-00107-9
  • Fuir . Roman, 2005
  • La mélancolie de Zidane . 2006
    • Zidane's melancholy. Übers. Joachim Unseld. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 2007 ISBN 978-3-627-00141-4
  • La vérité sur Marie. Novel, 2009
    • The truth about Marie. Übers. Joachim Unseld. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 2010 ISBN 978-3-627-00167-4
  • L'urgence et la patience . Essays, 2012
    • The urgency and the patience. Übers. Joachim Unseld. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 2012 ISBN 978-3-627-00186-5
  • La Main et le Regard . Essay on the exhibition Livre / Louvre in the Louvre , 2012
  • Nue . novel. Editions de Minuit 2013
  • Football . Minuit, Paris 2015
    • Football, German by Joachim Unseld. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 2016 ISBN 978-3-627-00227-5
  • MMMM Roman tetralogy , with Faire l'amour, Fuir, La Vérité sur Marie and Nue in 1 volume. The German version with the same translators. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 2017
  • Made in china . Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris 2017.
  • La clé USB . Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris 2019.
    • The USB stick. Übers. Joachim Unseld. Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt am Main 2020 ISBN 9783627002732

Movies

  • 1989: La salle de bain (screenplay)
  • 1990: Monsieur (screenplay and director)
  • 1992: La Sevillane (writer and director)
  • 1998: La Patinoire (screenplay and director)
  • 2008: Fuir (screenplay and director)
  • 2015: The Honey Dress (Writer and Director)

literature

  • Olivier Bessard-Banquy: Le roman ludique. Jean Echenoz, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Éric Chevillard . Presses Univ. de Septentrion, Lille 2003. ISBN 2-85939-782-5
  • Oliver Eberlen: Roman impassible. The subversive and undogmatic handling of narration, language, reality and time in the novels of Jean-Philippe Toussaint and Patrick Devilles . Kovac, Hamburg 2002. (= Poetica series of publications, 64) ISBN 3-8300-0541-5
  • Kai Nonnenmacher: Two perspectives from Jean-Philippe Toussaint: Minimal revisions in ›Autoportrait (à l'étranger)‹. In: Mirko F. Schmidt (Ed.): Entre parenthèses: Contributions to the work of Jean-Philippe Toussaint . Ed. Vigilia, Paderborn ISBN 3-8311-4767-1 pp. 127-148
  • Mirko Schmidt: Jean-Philippe Toussaint - telling and keeping silent. Books on Demand, Paderborn 2001 ISBN 3-8311-1565-6
  • Mirko Schmidt (ed.): Entre parenthèses. Contributions to the work of Jean-Philippe Toussaint. Edition Vigilia, Paderborn 2003
  • Klaus Semsch: The self-portraits of Jean-Philippe Toussaints , in his., Discrete Heroes. Strategies for meeting the world in Romance narrative literature from 1980. Meidenbauer, Munich 2006 ISBN 3-89975-062-4 pp. 137–178
  • Christian von Tschilschke : novel and film. Cinematic writing in the French post-avant-garde novel. Narr, Tübingen 2000 (= Mannheim contributions to linguistics and literary studies; 46) ISBN 3-8233-5646-1

Web links

Commons : Jean-Philippe Toussaint  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fourth cover page of Nue .
  2. Relaxed miniatures Jean-Philippe Toussaint: "The urgency and patience , review by Dina Netz in Deutschlandradio Kultur on January 31, 2013