Jean-Philippe Toussaint closes his Brussels cycle with "La Hantise"
The new novel, described as a spy story and a love story haunted by the figure of the father, brings to an end the author's Brussels sequence, according to France Culture.
Jean-Philippe Toussaint has published "La Hantise", a novel that France Culture presents as closing the cycle of books he has set in Brussels. The broadcaster describes it as combining the texture of a spy novel with a love story, while also functioning, in the author's own framing reported by the program, as an "exercice de filiation" centered on the figure of the father.
According to France Culture, the book unfolds against a backdrop of corruption and a Europe shown as weakened, giving the private, familial story a wider political shadow. No further plot details, publisher or page count were given in the source.
The novel was discussed on the program "Répliques" on France Culture. Readers who have followed Toussaint's Brussels sequence may find in "La Hantise" the announced closing chapter of that cycle, though the broadcast summary does not specify which earlier titles belong to it.
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