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One of the most original novelists working today, Toussaint will almost undoubtedly go down as one of the great comic writers of our era. He turns ordinary life situations into comedy by the slightest and subtlest exagerrations, his stories move from scene to scene sometimes with only the flimiest excuse for an over-reaching plot. What we come away with is not just a patchwork of set pieces but rather a surprising feeling of melancholy. His contemporary existentialism is as poignant as it is funny.