Monsieur Pa

Meet Monsieur, your hero, a successful 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 fiancée 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. Here Toussaint turns the ordinary into the extraordinary, an unremarkable anti-hero into a deadpan wit.

Jean-Philippe Toussaint has written seven novels, which have been compared to the works of Samuel Beckett, Jaques Tati, and Jim Jarmusch. Television was published by Dalkey Archive Press in 2006 to great acclaim; The Bathroom is currently forthcoming.