Monsieur Cultural Édouard Levé's unusual and uncompromising

Édouard Levé's unusual and uncompromising autobiography

and Kierkegaard

fragmentary but immersive

wiggled them slowly looking about

with Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Monsieur Cultural Édouard Levé's unusual and uncompromisingBy Jean Philippe Toussaint Translated by John Lambert ISBN: 9781564785053 Publication Date: 6 1 2008 The hero of this cool novel is 'Monsieur', a nameless young man whose everyday life is followed in precise detail during the course of the narrative. Almost incidentally we discover that Monsieur has an executive job and a secretary; that he is rejected by his fiance but is championed by her parents; that he unwillingly types out his neighbour's