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Self-Portrait Abroad
Jean-Philippe Toussaint
出版Deep Vellum Publishing, 2010-05-11
主題Fiction / Literary
ISBN15647862189781564786210
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=WetXEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋In Self-Portrait Abroad, our narrator—a Belgian author much like Toussaint himself—travels the globe, finding the mundane blended everywhere with the exotic: With his usual poker face, he keeps up on Corsican gossip in Tokyo and has a battle of nerves in a butcher shop in Berlin; he wins a boules tournament in Cap Corse, takes in a strip club in Japan's historic Nara, gets pulled through Hanoi on a cycle rickshaw, and has a chance encounter on the road from Tunis to Sfax. Tales of a cosmopolitan at home in a strangely familiar world, Self-Portrait Abroad casts the entire globe in a cool but playful light, reminding us that, wherever we go, we take our own eyes with us...