Villa Bunker Subjects and Themes as Finnegans Wake was once

as Finnegans Wake was once called Work in Progress

the metaphysical

here translated into English

Jean-Philippe Toussaint

It begins with a mute boarding a Mississippi boat and ends without a conclusion: "Something further may follow of this Masquerade

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