Title : Television - Jean-Philippe Toussaint - book

• Summary

The book tells the story of an art historian's summer in Berlin as he prepares to write an essay on Titian Vecelli and, at the same time, decides to stop watching television. It is both a description of his daily work (studious breakfasts, Berlin swimming pools, walks in the parks), and a study of his state of mind since he stopped watching television. "Halfway between a pamphlet and a fable, all this is told with constant humor, a writing that is limpid but applied to the smallest detail. Everyone will find in it the echo of their own relationship with television, in all its ambiguity." (Françoise Giroud, Le Figaro) "A few essayists have gravely analyzed the crisis of representation - and therefore of civilization - opened by the continuous bombardment of virtual images that we undergo, in ecstasy and lack. Jean-Philippe Toussaint gives it a novelistic expression of exemplary comic and critical effectiveness. » (Pierre Lepape, Le Monde) Television was published in 1997.

• EAN : 9782707318022
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