Description: The daring, mischievous micro-essays of award-winning French humorist Éric Chevillard, published in English for the first time
Review Quotes: "In Museum Visits, Chevillard is at his best, spewing anxious observations of the everyday in shortform. . . . While deliriously funny, Chevillard's short prose also palpitates from one anxious cogitation to another. . . . In his fluid translation, Daniel Levin Becker matches the minute tonal shifts. . . . The reader is elevated, planted in Chevillard's unordinary perspective and given access to an inside joke told by an author of extraordinary wit."--Bridget Peak, Asymptote
"A spellbinding essay collection that is as funny as it is unclassifiable. The brief pieces offer winking, curmudgeonly commentary. . . . Chevillard's humor is a mix of Seinfeldian observation and Monty Python-esque zaniness. . . . These beguiling and genre-defying pieces elucidate the strangeness of the everyday."--Publishers Weekly "Éric Chevillard is a virtuoso of the short form . . . [whose] favored medium is the subversively illuminating anecdote. . . . In this kaleidoscope of absurdities, indulgent glimpses of others' foibles come perilously close to reflections of our own inner lives."--Tess Lewis, Arts Fuse "[A] work of beautifully rendered miniature pieces. . . . [Chevillard's] astonishing wordplay and absurdist fantasies are really stand-ins for the inner torments of his soul."--Elaine Margolin, World Literature Today "Fun . . . well-crafted . . . engaging. . . . Museum Visits is an enjoyable collection."--M. A.Orthofer, Complete Review "Museum Visits is a book of sheer exuberance, a delicious ten-course meal whipped up out of Chevillard's fizzing, capacious, elegantly controlled delight in the world."--Lauren Groff, author of The Vaster Wilds "These improbable, oblique, razor-sharp and often hilarious miniatures seem to be about nothing very much. Don't be taken in by appearances. Chevillard's gem-like pieces, superbly translated by Daniel Levin Becker, bring to life a whole world, and its gently squinting observer."--David Bellos, author of Is that a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything "Daniel Levin Becker is a magician, an innovator, an engineer: a virtuoso translator. I am in awe of what he has achieved here."--Kate Briggs, author of This Little Art