Urgency and Patience Balkans "Suicide is both fiction and

"Suicide is both fiction and final

from gnosticism to modernism

the logic of fiction

” —Jürg Laederach

His hilarious

Urgency and Patience Balkans "Suicide is both fiction andBoth a sense of urgency and a goodly amount of patience are required for any writer to produce a novel. Moving between these two poles, Jean Philippe Toussaint presents a series of short essays on the art of writing, both his own and that of writers he has admired, such as Kafka, Beckett, Dostoyevsky, and Proust. Both a sense of urgency and a goodly amount of patience are required for any writer to produce a novel. Moving between these two poles, Jean