Toussaint, Jean-Philippe
Overview
| Works: | 203 works in 834 publications in 24 languages and 10,999 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Fiction Thrillers (Fiction) Biographies Psychological fiction Criticism, interpretation, etc History Essays Exhibition catalogs Romance fiction Literature |
| Roles: | Author, Author of introduction, Interviewee, Collector, Contributor, Creator, Dedicator, Director, Performer, Scenarist, wst, Other, Author of screenplay, Bibliographic antecedent, Film editor, Narrator, Author of dialog, Honoree, Editor, dki |
| Classifications: | PQ2680.O86, 843.914 |
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Most widely held works about
Jean-Philippe Toussaint
- Football by Jean-Philippe Toussaint( )
- Écriture du fantasme chez Jean-Philippe Toussaint et Tanguy Viel : diffraction littéraire de l'identité by Alice Richir( )
- Self-portrait abroad by Jean-Philippe Toussaint( Book )
- Le roman ludique : Jean Echenoz, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Eric Chevillard by Olivier Bessard-Banquy( )
- Parody and palimpsest : intertextuality, language, and the ludic in the novels of Jean-Philippe Toussaint by Sarah L Glasco( Book )
- Scènes d'intérieur : six romanciers des années 1980-1990 by Maryse Fauvel( Book )
- Made in China by Jean-Philippe Toussaint( Book )
- Passer en douce à la douane : l'écriture minimaliste de Minuit : Deville, Echenoz, Redonnet et Toussaint by Sophia Petronella Schoots( Book )
- Les vérités de Jean-Philippe Toussaint by Colloque "Les Vérités de Jean-Philippe Toussaint"( Book )
- À la lisière de l'absence : l'imaginaire du corps chez Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Marie Redonnet et Éric Chevillard by Lidia Cotea( Book )
- L'ironie dans le roman français depuis 1980 : Echenoz, Chevillard, Toussaint, Gailly by Jia Zhao( Book )
- "A la recherche de l'homme perdu" literarische Ethik in den Romanen von Jean Echenoz, Jean-Philippe Toussaint und Michel Houellebecq by Susanna Frings( Book )
- Détail et humour dans l'œuvre de Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Jean Echenoz et Christian Oster by Thouraya Ben Salah Ben Ticha( Book )
- Les écritures de l'image par Jean-Philippe Toussaint : expérimentation et sémentation au XXIe siècle by Claire Olivier( )
- La main et le regard : livre-Louvre by Jean-Philippe Toussaint( Book )
- Jean-Philippe Toussaint( Book )
- Der diskrete Charme der Prokrastination : Aufschub als literarisches Motiv und narrative Strategie (insbesondere im Werk von Jean-Philippe Toussaint) by Anja Kauß( Book )
- Lire, voir, penser l'oeuvre de Jean-Philippe Toussaint by Jean-Michel Devésa( Book )
- Roman impassible : der subversive und undogmatische Umgang mit Narration, Sprache, Realität und Zeit in den Romanen Jean-Philippe Toussaints und Patrick Devilles by Oliver Eberlen( Book )
- Selbstporträt (in der Fremde) by Jean-Philippe Toussaint( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Television : [a novel] by
Jean-Philippe Toussaint(
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56 editions published between 1996 and 2011 in 14 languages and held by 789 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
One of Toussaint's funniest antiheroes, the protagonist of Television turns daily occurrences into comic nightmares about the influence of television on our lives."--Jacket
56 editions published between 1996 and 2011 in 14 languages and held by 789 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
One of Toussaint's funniest antiheroes, the protagonist of Television turns daily occurrences into comic nightmares about the influence of television on our lives."--Jacket
La salle de bain : [roman] by
Jean-Philippe Toussaint(
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85 editions published between 1985 and 2020 in 15 languages and held by 782 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Menus faits de la vie d'un héros égocentrique et quelque peu "immature" qui se demande vraiment pour quoi ou pour qui il devrait prendre le "risque de compromettre sa vie abstraite". Style minutieux, maniaque et placide. Une oeuvre "moderne" qui a plu à la critique française. Cadre: Paris, Venise, Paris
85 editions published between 1985 and 2020 in 15 languages and held by 782 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Menus faits de la vie d'un héros égocentrique et quelque peu "immature" qui se demande vraiment pour quoi ou pour qui il devrait prendre le "risque de compromettre sa vie abstraite". Style minutieux, maniaque et placide. Une oeuvre "moderne" qui a plu à la critique française. Cadre: Paris, Venise, Paris
Running away by
Jean-Philippe Toussaint(
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35 editions published between 2005 and 2009 in 9 languages and held by 739 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A European man arrives in Shanghai, ostensibly on vacation, yet a small task given him by his Parisian girlfriend Marie starts a series of complications. There is a mysterious Chinese man and a manila envelope full of cash. Later, he meets a woman at an art gallery and they agree to travel together to Beijing, yet when he joins her at the train station, the Chinese man is along. Events eclipse explanations, and soon he surrenders himself to the on-rush of experience. Toussaint's latest novel pulls the reader into a jet-lag reality, a confusion of time and place that is both particularly modern and utterly real. The Chaplinesque slapstick of his acclaimed early works The Bathroom and Camera is here replaced by an ever-unfolding fabric of questions, coincidences, and misapprehensions large and small. The mature Toussaint shows himself to be no less ingenious an inventor of existential dilemmas, but with a new, surprising tenderness, and a deepened concern for the inexpressible immediacy and sensuality of human experience
35 editions published between 2005 and 2009 in 9 languages and held by 739 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A European man arrives in Shanghai, ostensibly on vacation, yet a small task given him by his Parisian girlfriend Marie starts a series of complications. There is a mysterious Chinese man and a manila envelope full of cash. Later, he meets a woman at an art gallery and they agree to travel together to Beijing, yet when he joins her at the train station, the Chinese man is along. Events eclipse explanations, and soon he surrenders himself to the on-rush of experience. Toussaint's latest novel pulls the reader into a jet-lag reality, a confusion of time and place that is both particularly modern and utterly real. The Chaplinesque slapstick of his acclaimed early works The Bathroom and Camera is here replaced by an ever-unfolding fabric of questions, coincidences, and misapprehensions large and small. The mature Toussaint shows himself to be no less ingenious an inventor of existential dilemmas, but with a new, surprising tenderness, and a deepened concern for the inexpressible immediacy and sensuality of human experience
Camera by
Jean-Philippe Toussaint(
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45 editions published between 1988 and 2009 in 8 languages and held by 660 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In this improbable love story, we meet a man who is obsessed with himself: how he does things and all the ways he might have done them, how he thinks, why he thinks the way that he thinks, how he might do or think otherwise. What happens? He takes driving lessons, goes grocery shopping, slowly yet methodically battles an olive on a plate. It is all simple and amusing until life intercedes: there is love, suddenly, and change, a flurry of emotion, and an unexpected incident with a camera on a ship. Only Jean-Philippe Toussaint - master of poignant deadpan - could write a novel at once so aloof and so touching, where we come to know our narrator intimately while knowing almost nothing about him."--Back cover
45 editions published between 1988 and 2009 in 8 languages and held by 660 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In this improbable love story, we meet a man who is obsessed with himself: how he does things and all the ways he might have done them, how he thinks, why he thinks the way that he thinks, how he might do or think otherwise. What happens? He takes driving lessons, goes grocery shopping, slowly yet methodically battles an olive on a plate. It is all simple and amusing until life intercedes: there is love, suddenly, and change, a flurry of emotion, and an unexpected incident with a camera on a ship. Only Jean-Philippe Toussaint - master of poignant deadpan - could write a novel at once so aloof and so touching, where we come to know our narrator intimately while knowing almost nothing about him."--Back cover
La vérité sur Marie by
Jean-Philippe Toussaint(
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36 editions published between 2005 and 2014 in 8 languages and held by 638 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Moving through a variety of locales and adventures, The Truth About Marie revisits the unnamed narrator of Jean-Philippe Toussant's acclaimed Running Away, reporting on his now disintegrated relationship with the titular Marie--the story switching deftly between first and third person as the narrator continues to drift through life, and Marie does her best to get on with hers."--Page 4 of cover
36 editions published between 2005 and 2014 in 8 languages and held by 638 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Moving through a variety of locales and adventures, The Truth About Marie revisits the unnamed narrator of Jean-Philippe Toussant's acclaimed Running Away, reporting on his now disintegrated relationship with the titular Marie--the story switching deftly between first and third person as the narrator continues to drift through life, and Marie does her best to get on with hers."--Page 4 of cover
Making love by
Jean-Philippe Toussaint(
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42 editions published between 2002 and 2013 in 9 languages and held by 592 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This is an original and daring retelling of a classic theme - the end of an affair. As much an exploration of setting and place as it is of the affair that comes apart in them, 'Making Love' follows a couple's final days together in Japan
42 editions published between 2002 and 2013 in 9 languages and held by 592 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This is an original and daring retelling of a classic theme - the end of an affair. As much an exploration of setting and place as it is of the affair that comes apart in them, 'Making Love' follows a couple's final days together in Japan
Monsieur : a novel by
Jean-Philippe Toussaint(
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37 editions published between 1900 and 2009 in 10 languages and held by 514 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Meet Monsieur, your hero, a succesful young executive in Paris whose daily life you will follow in precise detail. He is nothing if not unremarkable. Meet his secretary, his nieces, his fiancee and her parents, his neighbor whose scientific reports Monsieur unwittingly types out. What will happen? This and that. Monsieur will attend a party. He will babysit. But most of all, Monsieur will muse, and so will you muse, on everything from the night sky to a Rotring pen. And it will be very funny
37 editions published between 1900 and 2009 in 10 languages and held by 514 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Meet Monsieur, your hero, a succesful young executive in Paris whose daily life you will follow in precise detail. He is nothing if not unremarkable. Meet his secretary, his nieces, his fiancee and her parents, his neighbor whose scientific reports Monsieur unwittingly types out. What will happen? This and that. Monsieur will attend a party. He will babysit. But most of all, Monsieur will muse, and so will you muse, on everything from the night sky to a Rotring pen. And it will be very funny
La réticence by
Jean-Philippe Toussaint(
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28 editions published between 1991 and 2012 in 6 languages and held by 482 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A man vacationing in an island village believes himself to be under surveillance
28 editions published between 1991 and 2012 in 6 languages and held by 482 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A man vacationing in an island village believes himself to be under surveillance
Naked : a novel by
Jean-Philippe Toussaint(
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21 editions published between 2013 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 420 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
""To write of her that which has never been written of any other woman." And with these words from Dante, Jean-Philippe Toussaint sets out once more to deepen and broaden his depiction of one of contemporary fiction's most fully realized female characters: haute couturière Marie Madeleine Marguerite de Montalte. Having traced the ups, downs, ins, and outs of Marie's relationship with the unnamed narrator through three previous novels, Toussaint brings his customary nuanced rumination and nimble wit to this concluding volume, which takes us back to the Tokyo of Making Love and the Elba of The Truth About Marie, through jealousy and comedy, irony and tenderness, and the meticulous accretion of details that engross and distract us even as life's larger changes shift the assumptions by which we live"--
21 editions published between 2013 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 420 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
""To write of her that which has never been written of any other woman." And with these words from Dante, Jean-Philippe Toussaint sets out once more to deepen and broaden his depiction of one of contemporary fiction's most fully realized female characters: haute couturière Marie Madeleine Marguerite de Montalte. Having traced the ups, downs, ins, and outs of Marie's relationship with the unnamed narrator through three previous novels, Toussaint brings his customary nuanced rumination and nimble wit to this concluding volume, which takes us back to the Tokyo of Making Love and the Elba of The Truth About Marie, through jealousy and comedy, irony and tenderness, and the meticulous accretion of details that engross and distract us even as life's larger changes shift the assumptions by which we live"--
La clé USB by
Jean-Philippe Toussaint(
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6 editions published in 2019 in French and Undetermined and held by 172 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Lorsqu'on travaille à la Commission européenne dans une unité de prospective qui s'intéresse aux technologies du futur et aux questions de cybersécurité, que ressent-on quand on est approché par des lobbyistes? Que se passe-t-il quand, dans une clé USB qui ne nous est pas destinée, on découvre des documents qui nous font soupçonner l'existence d'une porte dérobée dans une machine produite par une société chinoise basée à Dalian? N'est-on pas tenté de quitter son bureau à Bruxelles et d'aller voir soi-même, en Chine, sur le terrain?"--Page 4 de la couverture
6 editions published in 2019 in French and Undetermined and held by 172 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Lorsqu'on travaille à la Commission européenne dans une unité de prospective qui s'intéresse aux technologies du futur et aux questions de cybersécurité, que ressent-on quand on est approché par des lobbyistes? Que se passe-t-il quand, dans une clé USB qui ne nous est pas destinée, on découvre des documents qui nous font soupçonner l'existence d'une porte dérobée dans une machine produite par une société chinoise basée à Dalian? N'est-on pas tenté de quitter son bureau à Bruxelles et d'aller voir soi-même, en Chine, sur le terrain?"--Page 4 de la couverture
L'urgence et la patience by
Jean-Philippe Toussaint(
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8 editions published between 2012 and 2015 in French and held by 143 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
L'urgence, qui appelle l'impulsion, la fougue, la vitesse - et la patience, qui requiert la lenteur, la constance et l'effort. Mais elles sont pourtant indispensables l'une et l'autre à l'écriture d'un livre, dans des proportions variables, à des dosages distincts, chaque écrivain composant sa propre alchimie, un des deux caractères pouvant être dominant et l'autre récessif, comme les allèles qui déterminent la couleur des yeux.--Les Libraires
8 editions published between 2012 and 2015 in French and held by 143 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
L'urgence, qui appelle l'impulsion, la fougue, la vitesse - et la patience, qui requiert la lenteur, la constance et l'effort. Mais elles sont pourtant indispensables l'une et l'autre à l'écriture d'un livre, dans des proportions variables, à des dosages distincts, chaque écrivain composant sa propre alchimie, un des deux caractères pouvant être dominant et l'autre récessif, comme les allèles qui déterminent la couleur des yeux.--Les Libraires
La mélancolie de Zidane by
Jean-Philippe Toussaint(
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9 editions published between 2006 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 120 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
'This is a book that isn't going to please anybody, not intellectuals, who aren't interested in football, or football-lovers, who will find it too intellectual. But I had to write it, I didn't want to break the fine thread that still connects me to the world.'
9 editions published between 2006 and 2016 in 3 languages and held by 120 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
'This is a book that isn't going to please anybody, not intellectuals, who aren't interested in football, or football-lovers, who will find it too intellectual. But I had to write it, I didn't want to break the fine thread that still connects me to the world.'
Les émotions by
Jean-Philippe Toussaint(
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11 editions published between 2020 and 2021 in French and held by 109 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Lorsque Jean Detrez, qui travaille à la Commission européenne, a commencé à s'intéresser de manière professionnelle à l'avenir, il s'est rendu compte qu'il y avait une différence abyssale entre l'avenir public et l'avenir privé. La connaissance, ou l'exploration, de l'avenir public, relève de la prospective, qui constitue une discipline scientifique à part entière, alors que la volonté, ou le fantasme, de connaître son propre avenir relève du spiritisme ou de la voyance. Mais a-t-on toujours envie de savoir ce que nous réservent les prochains jours ou les prochaines semaines, a-t-on toujours envie de savoir ce que nous deviendrons dans un futur plus ou moins éloigné, quand on sait que ce qui peut nous arriver de plus stupéfiant, le matin, quand on se lève, c'est d'apprendre qu'on va mourir dans la journée ou qu'on va vivre une nouvelle aventure amoureuse ou sexuelle dans les heures qui viennent ?
11 editions published between 2020 and 2021 in French and held by 109 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Lorsque Jean Detrez, qui travaille à la Commission européenne, a commencé à s'intéresser de manière professionnelle à l'avenir, il s'est rendu compte qu'il y avait une différence abyssale entre l'avenir public et l'avenir privé. La connaissance, ou l'exploration, de l'avenir public, relève de la prospective, qui constitue une discipline scientifique à part entière, alors que la volonté, ou le fantasme, de connaître son propre avenir relève du spiritisme ou de la voyance. Mais a-t-on toujours envie de savoir ce que nous réservent les prochains jours ou les prochaines semaines, a-t-on toujours envie de savoir ce que nous deviendrons dans un futur plus ou moins éloigné, quand on sait que ce qui peut nous arriver de plus stupéfiant, le matin, quand on se lève, c'est d'apprendre qu'on va mourir dans la journée ou qu'on va vivre une nouvelle aventure amoureuse ou sexuelle dans les heures qui viennent ?
Self-portrait abroad by
Jean-Philippe Toussaint(
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28 editions published between 1999 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 94 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In Self-Portrait Abroad, our narrator#x97;a Belgian author much like Toussaint himself#x97;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
28 editions published between 1999 and 2012 in 4 languages and held by 94 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In Self-Portrait Abroad, our narrator#x97;a Belgian author much like Toussaint himself#x97;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
Harry Gruyaert : TV shots by
Harry Gruyaert(
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4 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 80 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This publication looks at the work of Harry Gruyaert
4 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 80 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This publication looks at the work of Harry Gruyaert
Urgency and patience by
Jean-Philippe Toussaint(
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1 edition published in 2015 in English and held by 76 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
1 edition published in 2015 in English and held by 76 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
La patinoire by
Jean-Philippe Toussaint(
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12 editions published between 1999 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 74 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An American actor arrives on a film set to find a wacky cast: a director willing to suffer for his art, the entire Lithuanian National Hockey Team, their ditsy interpreter, a crew that can't skate, and a persistent video crew
12 editions published between 1999 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 74 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An American actor arrives on a film set to find a wacky cast: a director willing to suffer for his art, the entire Lithuanian National Hockey Team, their ditsy interpreter, a crew that can't skate, and a persistent video crew
Le début et la fin du récit : une relation critique(
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6 editions published in 2010 in French and held by 73 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
6 editions published in 2010 in French and held by 73 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Jérôme Leuba : battlefield by
Jérôme Leuba(
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3 editions published in 2013 in French and English and held by 59 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published in 2013 in French and English and held by 59 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
La main et le regard : livre-Louvre by
Jean-Philippe Toussaint(
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8 editions published between 2011 and 2012 in French and Undetermined and held by 51 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
La main et le regard, Livre/Louvre est un ouvrage qui, par l'image et non par l'écrit, entend rendre hommage au livre ; mise en abyme apparemment paradoxale et pourtant naturelle pour un écrivain, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, qui est aussi cinéaste et plasticien
8 editions published between 2011 and 2012 in French and Undetermined and held by 51 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
La main et le regard, Livre/Louvre est un ouvrage qui, par l'image et non par l'écrit, entend rendre hommage au livre ; mise en abyme apparemment paradoxale et pourtant naturelle pour un écrivain, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, qui est aussi cinéaste et plasticien
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- Whiteside, Shaun Translator Editor Author
- Smith, Matthew B. Translator
- Viel, Tanguy
- Richir, Alice Author
- Lambert, John 1960- Translator
- Echenoz, Jean
- Chevillard, Eric
- Stump, Jordan 1959-
- Redonnet, Marie
- Bessard-Banquy, Olivier Author
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Authors, Belgian Authors, French Authorship Bathrooms Blockchains (Databases) Books and reading in art Chevillard, Éric China Closure (Rhetoric) Computer security Deville, Patrick Duras, Marguerite Echenoz, Jean Éditions de Minuit Ernaux, Annie, Essays Ethics in literature Europeans Executives Fashion designers Fiction France France--Paris French fiction French--Foreign countries French literature Gailly, Christian, Germany--Berlin Gruyaert, Harry, Houellebecq, Michel Intertextuality Irony in literature Lê, Linda Literature Man-woman relationships Minimalism (Literature) Openings (Rhetoric) Paranoia Parody in literature Passivity (Psychology) Photography, Artistic Redonnet, Marie Sebbar, Leïla Seri Novel Soccer Tourists Toussaint, Jean-Philippe Travel Women fashion designers World Cup (Soccer)
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Alternative Names
Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Jean-Philippe Toussaint Belgian writer and filmmaker
Jean-Philippe Toussaint belgický spisovatel a režisér
Jean-Philippe Toussaint Belgisch schrijver
Jean-Philippe Toussaint belgischer Schriftsteller und Regisseur
Jean-Philippe Toussaint scríbhneoir agus déantóir scannán Beilgeach
Jean-Philippe Toussaint scrittore belga
Jean-PhilippeToussaint, 1957-
Toussaint, Jean-Philippe 1957-
Toussaint, Jean-Phillipe
Toussaint, Philippe 1957-
Toussaint'as J.-P.
Жан-Филип Тусен
Жан-Філіпп Тусcен
Туссен Жан-Филипп
جان فيليب توسان
ژان-فیلیپ توسن نویسنده و کارگردان بلژیکی
ژان-فیلیپ تووسەن
뚜생, 장 필립 1957-
투생, 장 필리프 1957-
투생, 장 필립 1957-
ジャン＝フィリップ・トゥーサン
トゥーサン, ジャン=フィリップ
トゥーサン, ジャン=フィリップ 1957-
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