Football : followed by Zidane's melancholy / Jean-Philippe Toussaint ; translated by Shaun Whiteside.
Language: English Original language: French Publisher: London : Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2016Description: 85 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781910695173
- Essays. Selections. English
- 844.914 23
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Loanable Book | Library | General Collection | 844.914 TOU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 000438134 |
Translated from the French.
Includes bibliographical references.
"The whistle was blown, and when, like an unexpected deliverance, Belgium opened the scoring with a spectacular acrobatic scissor-kick by Wilmots, I leapt fro my seat, arms in the air, turning in a circle and giddily jumping around in the stands, not knowing where to go, who to celebrate the event with, before spotting another Belgian as isolated as I was among the terraces. we gauchely hurried towards each other, not knowing how to concelebrate our goal, merely striking our palms violently together, like two American basketball players who have just pulled off some kind of feat. Nothing more, we didn't exchange a word, I don't even know if this man spoke French (it was one of the strangest relationships that I have ever had in my life), finding him again a quarter of an hour later in the same place to repeat the same gesture after Belgium's second goal." - book cover.
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