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Camera (2008)

by Jean-Philippe Toussaint(Favorite Author)

3.49 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

156478522X (ISBN13: 9781564785220)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Dalkey Archive Press

review 1: I fell asleep twice. Highly recommended if you want to fall asleep. We all have those days when we're like 'gahh, I wish I could fall asleep right now but I'm just sitting awake in bed'. You should buy this book and keep it on your bedside table for such occasions.Just because it made me fall asleep, it doesn't mean that I didn't enjoy parts of the book. Sometimes the prose stood out (who knows what it sounds like to a native French reader reading the novel in French, I read the translation). Sometimes it was so silly and goofy, and I enjoyed these parts the post.I really enjoyed the love story aspect of it, I did find parts of it romantic and cute. This is probably the first time I've read a sex scene in a book and enjoyed it (it's not very graphic, it'll made me laugh), ... moreso I guess the book has my favourite sex-scene-in-a-book-ever. And I was fond of Pascale, although I don't know very much about her character. She's sleepy. Very sleepy. Oh Pascale.Very nice opening sentence, and a very nice closing sentence.I know nothing of post-modernist literature or Camus' importance and have little interest in analyzing/thinking about the book in a way that's framed by my understanding (or developing an understanding) of postmodernism or Camus.Loses two stars because sometimes I really really couldn't give a shit.
review 2: A remarkable and fascinating little book. There is a superficial stasis of plot and character that will turn off some readers, but great riches lurk beneath the quotidian surface. At an aesthetic level, "Camera" reminds me of how I feel when standing alone in large clean empty parking lot or in a newly opened airport terminal. Each moment here manages to become both small and large, and has the smell of abandoned infrastructure. less

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