Soccer
A First Look

The publisher’s classification of this beautiful book labels it as sport, as memoir, and as world history – which I suppose it is, but most of all I see this as a meditative, philosophical reflection on aesthetics and experience. Many people’s experience of sport is visceral, is deep rooted and inex......more

Reflekteret og anekdotisk, men også lidt sludrevoren bog om at være fidboldfan......more

Lovely book, proving that you can step out of cliches about football and still write a book of essays about it.......more

Belgian novelist, photographer and film-maker, Jean-Philippe Toussaint has written a short novella about his relationship with football that in his words, “no one will like, not intellectuals, who aren’t interested in football, or football-lovers, who will find it too intellectual”. I think he’s rig......more

Short non-fiction book by Jean-Philippe Toussaint who I know and love better from his short distinctive novels. About football and writing, but inevitable much more, as we track his writing life at the staging points of 4-year-separated world cup finals, as football comes and goes in his life. It is......more