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'Parody and Palimpsest' is an ambitious, timely, and thoroughly bracing reflection on the work of a major contemporary author, tracing Jean-Philippe Toussaint's poetics from the beginning of his career to the present, and accounting in useful ways for the impression of absolute originality that his writing affords. (Warren Motte, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Colorado) Sarah L. Glasco's 'Parody and Palimpsest' is the ultimate book for all scholars and readers interested in Jean-Philippe Toussaint. It is the only exhaustive study of all Toussaint's works, an academic feast that successfully addresses this Belgian novelist's genial sense of humor. (Alain-Philippe Durand, Director of the School of International Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; Interim Director of Africana Studies and Honors Professor of French at the University of Arizona)

'Parody and Palimpsest' is an ambitious, timely, and thoroughly bracing reflection on the work of a major contemporary author, tracing Jean-Philippe Toussaint's poetics from the beginning of his career to the present, and accounting in useful ways for the impression of absolute originality that his writing affords. (Warren Motte, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of Colorado) Sarah L. Glasco's 'Parody and Palimpsest' is the ultimate book for all scholars and readers interested in Jean-Philippe Toussaint. It is the only exhaustive study of all Toussaint's works, an academic feast that successfully addresses this Belgian novelist's genial sense of humor. (Alain-Philippe Durand, Director of the School of International Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; Interim Director of Africana Studies and Honors Professor of French at the University of Arizona)

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Sarah L. Glasco is Assistant Professor of French in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Elon University in Elon, North Carolina. She holds a PhD in Romance languages from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she focused on the contemporary French novel with a supporting program in contemporary Hispanic literature. She has published in the French Review, Expressions Maghrébines, and Perspectives on Undergraduate Research Mentoring and continues to pursue teaching and research in her varied interests that include Samuel Beckett, Azouz Begag, multicultural France and immigration policy, and sociolinguistics in language teaching and literature.

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