{"product_id":"the-emotions-paperback","title":"The Emotions - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJean-Philippe Toussaint\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMark Polizzotti\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn analyst at the heart of the European Union revisits his past and anticipates the future after his father's death, in this brilliant, nuanced novel of love, politics, masculinity, and memory.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA European civil servant specializing in strategic foresight, Jean Detrez works on the future with scientific rigor. However, the unexpected seems to invade his life, both professional and personal. The Brexit referendum, the election of Trump, the separation from his partner, the death of his father, but also a night inexplicably spent with a stranger. Questioning what to do with time, the one passing and the one to come, leads him from professional life where anticipation is a scientific discipline, to private life where the past troubles the future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDo we want to know what the next few days or weeks have in store for us? Do we want to know if we are going to experience a new romantic or sexual adventure in the hours to come? Or how close death really is? This novel is an experiment in the ways in which fiction disrupts our representation of reality. Jean Deprez foresees events that do not occur, does not imagine those that will crush him, does not always perceive what he is experiencing, and is never certain that his reconstruction of the past is faithful to what happened.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJean-Philippe Toussaint \u003c\/b\u003eis a Belgian novelist, photographer, and filmmaker. He is the author of eighteen books, which have been translated into more than twenty languages and won numerous literary prizes, including the 2005 Prix Médicis for \u003ci\u003eFuir\u003c\/i\u003e (Running Away) and the 2009 Prix Décembre for \u003ci\u003eLa Vérité sur Marie\u003c\/i\u003e (The Truth about Marie). In 2012 Toussaint created an exhibition at the Louvre Museum that combines photographs, videos, installation art, and performance pieces to convey books without using writing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Polizzotti \u003c\/b\u003ehas translated more than fifty books from the French, including works by Gustave Flaubert, Patrick Modiano, Marguerite Duras, André Breton, and Raymond Roussel. His translation of \u003ci\u003eKibogo\u003c\/i\u003e by Scholastique Mukasonga was short-listed for the National Book Award in 2022, and his translation of Éric Vuillard's \u003ci\u003eThe War of the Poor\u003c\/i\u003e was short-listed for the International Booker Prize in 2021. A Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the recipient of a 2016 American Academy of Arts \u0026amp; Letters Award for Literature, Polizzotti is the author of eleven books, including \u003ci\u003eRevolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton\u003c\/i\u003e (1995; rev. ed. 2009), which was a finalist for the PEN\/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction; \u003ci\u003eLuis Buñuel's Los Olvidados\u003c\/i\u003e (2006); \u003ci\u003eBob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited\u003c\/i\u003e (2006); and \u003ci\u003eSympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto \u003c\/i\u003e(2018).\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.7 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 09, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52009597862189,"sku":"9781635422160","price":19.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/Tz0Eyl48qQ9781635422160.webp?v=1776829846","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/the-emotions-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}