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The Emotions

The Emotions

The Emotions
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by Jean-Philippe Toussaint; Mark Polizzotti (Translator)

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  • Title The Emotions
  • Author Jean-Philippe Toussaint; Mark Polizzotti (Translator)
  • Binding Papeback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 160
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Other Press (NY)
  • Publication date
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 6401166588
  • ISBN 9781635422160 / 1635422167
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 5.2 x 0.6 in (19.56 x 13.21 x 1.52 cm)
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Novels
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2025011640
  • Dewey Decimal Code 843.914
  • Quantity available 3

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From the publisher

An analyst at the heart of the European Union revisits his past and anticipates the future after his father's death, in this brilliant, nuanced novel of love, politics, masculinity, and memory.

A European civil servant specializing in strategic foresight, Jean Detrez works on the future with scientific rigor. However, the unexpected seems to invade his life, both professional and personal. The Brexit referendum, the election of Trump, the separation from his partner, the death of his father, but also a night inexplicably spent with a stranger. Questioning what to do with time, the one passing and the one to come, leads him from professional life where anticipation is a scientific discipline, to private life where the past troubles the future.

Do we want to know what the next few days or weeks have in store for us? Do we want to know if we are going to experience a new romantic or sexual adventure in the hours to come? Or how close death really is? This novel is an experiment in the ways in which fiction disrupts our representation of reality. Jean Deprez foresees events that do not occur, does not imagine those that will crush him, does not always perceive what he is experiencing, and is never certain that his reconstruction of the past is faithful to what happened.

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 11/15/2025, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 11/01/2025, Page 67
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/13/2025, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 01/01/0001, Page 0

About the author

Jean-Philippe Toussaint is a Belgian novelist, photographer, and filmmaker. He is the author of eighteen books, which have been translated into more than twenty languages and won numerous literary prizes, including the 2005 Prix Mdicis for Fuir (Running Away) and the 2009 Prix Dcembre for La Vrit sur Marie (The Truth about Marie). In 2012 Toussaint created an exhibition at the Louvre Museum that combines photographs, videos, installation art, and performance pieces to convey books without using writing.

Mark Polizzotti has translated more than fifty books from the French, including works by Gustave Flaubert, Patrick Modiano, Marguerite Duras, Andr Breton, and Raymond Roussel. His translation of Kibogo by Scholastique Mukasonga was short-listed for the National Book Award in 2022, and his translation of ric Vuillard's The War of the Poor was short-listed for the International Booker Prize in 2021. A Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the recipient of a 2016 American Academy of Arts & Letters Award for Literature, Polizzotti is the author of eleven books, including Revolution of the Mind: The Life of Andr Breton (1995; rev. ed. 2009), which was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction; Luis Buuel's Los Olvidados (2006); Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited (2006); and Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto (2018).

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