Article: Jacques Tati.(Review)

by David Bellos. London: The Harvill Press, 1999. 382 pp., illus. Hardcover: [pouns]25.

In some ways, this is a better biography of Jacques Tati than we had cause to expect from anyone--certainly a more cultivated one than the useful if relatively lowbrow efforts of James Harding in English (1984) and Marc Dondey in French (written with the assistance of Tati's daughter Sophie Tatischeff, 1993). So it's all the more regrettable that no American publisher or distributor to date has shown any interest in making this English book available. Even more unexpectedly, the author--who currently teaches in the departments of Comparative Literature and Romance Languages at ...

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