Villa Bunker Subjects and Themes as Finnegans Wake was once

as Finnegans Wake was once called Work in Progress

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

here translated into English

creating an expansive mosaic of characters

Brilliantly juxtaposing the aesthetics of novelty against those of repetition

Villa Bunker Subjects and Themes as Finnegans Wake was onceThe narrator of Villa Bunker receives letters, dozens of them, written by his mother in an isolated seaside villa, which tell of his parents' troubles in this uninhabitable house, soon to become a kind of labyrinth roamed by memories . . . The narrator of Villa Bunker receives letters, dozens of them, written by his mother in an isolated seaside villa, which tell of his parents' troubles in this uninhabitable house, soon to become a kind of labyrinth