Jean-Philippe Toussaint

 
Belgian writer, hailed by McCarthy as a kind of heir to Robbe-Grillet
 
writes about "the naive individual's skewed encounter with systems larger than himself" ... "encounter[s] with structure"
 
186: "We don't want plot, depth, or content: we want angles, arcs and intervals; we want pattern. Structure is content; geometry is everything."
 
a "slapstick" element ("in the Keaton-Chaplin mould," per 185, though certainly Tati would be the more salient reference?)
 
see The Bathroom (1985)
Monsieur (1986)
Camera (1989)

> from Tom McCarthy's Typewriters Bombs Jellyfish: Essays (2017)

> tagged with #systems, #to_read, #pattern, #geometry, #humor

> created September 28, 2024 at 11:40:08 AM


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