Football (eBook)

Jean-Philippe Toussaint (Autor)

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2016
88 Seiten
Fitzcarraldo Editions (Verlag)
978-1-910695-18-0 (ISBN)

Infos

Growing up in Belgium, football was Jean-Philippe Touissant's life, a passion not shared by his bookish family. Now an acclaimed novelist, essayist, and filmmaker, he reflects upon his lifelong love for the game with an intellectual's keen mind and a sports fan's heart. What, he ponders, has a lifetime of football fandom taught him about life and the passage of time itself.
Football takes readers on an idiosyncratic journey that delves deep into the author's childhood memories, but also transports us to World Cup matches in Japan, Germany, South Africa, and Brazil. Along the way, it kicks around such provocative questions as: How does football fandom both support and transcend nationalism? How are our memories of soccer matches both collective and distinctly personal? And how can a game this beautiful and this ephemeral be adequately captured in words?
Part travelogue, part memoir, and part philosophical essay, Football is entirely unique, a thrilling departure from the usual clichés of sports writing. Even readers with little knowledge of the game will be enthralled by Touissant's profound musings and lyrical prose.

Autor

Jean-Philippe Toussaint is the author of nine novels, all published by Éditions de Minuit in France, and the winner of numerous literary prizes, including the Prix Médicis for Running Away and the Prix Décembre for The Truth about Marie.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.5.2016
• Übersetzer: Shaun Whiteside
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Fahrrad
• Themenwelt: Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 1966 • 24 Hours of Le Mans • Alain Robbe-Grillet • Argentina • Barthes • Barthez • Beer • Belgian football • Belgian literature • Berlin • Blue • Brazil • Brussels • chauvinism • David Beckham • Didier Deschamps • Didi-Huberman • Editions de Minuit • England • Essay • Essays • essays in translation • Euro • Euro 2016 • European Championships • Euros • Fabien Barthez • FIFA • Fitzcarraldo Editions • Football • football competition • football, Japan, Korea, football world cup, fifa, FIFA, World Cup, philosophy, essay, essays, Zidane, Zinedine Zidane, melancholy, memoir, travel, writing, Fitzcarraldo Editions, England, Shibuya, prose, Kobe, Kobe stadium, football stadium, Roland Barthes, Barthes, Barthez, Fabien Barthez, Michel Foucault, Foucault, Jean-Paul Gaultier, Holland, Netherlands, Argentina, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, goal, hot dog, beer, World Cup 1998, World Cup 2002, World Cup 1966, Wembley, 1966, Geoff Hurst, blue, France 1998, • Football stadium • football world cup • Foucault • France • France 1998 • Franglais • French • French Literature • Geoff Hurst • Georges Didi-Huberman • goal • Goalkeeper • Hans Ulrich Obrist • headbutt • Holland • Hot Dog • Japan • Jean-Paul Gaultier • Jean-Philippe Toussaint • Jeff Koons • Kobe • Kobe stadium • Korea • Le Mans • Marco Materazzi • Materazzi • Melancholy • Memoir • Michel Foucault • minuit • Moral • Netherlands • Non-fiction • Nonfiction • Non Fiction • Nouveau Roman • Panenka • Parreno • Patriotism • Philippe Parreno • Philosophy • Prose • Real Madrid • red devils • Religious • Roland Barthes • Shaun Whiteside • Shibuya • Soccer • Stade de France • Thierry Henry • Time • Tokyo • tom mccarthy • Tour de France • Toussaint • Translation • Travel • Wembley • World Cup • World Cup 1966 • World Cup 1998 • World Cup 2002 • World Cup 2006 • World Cup 2014 • Writing • Yokohama • Zidane • Zidane headbutt • Zinedine Zidane • Zinedine Zidane headbutt
• ISBN-10: 1-910695-18-1 / 1910695181
• ISBN-13: 978-1-910695-18-0 / 9781910695180