Le nouveau volume dans la série expérimentale de romans de Peter Greenaway sur l'historiographie, sur le thème des jouets.
« At the turn of the Millennium Historians attempted to make a fresh start at keeping a record
of a rejuvenated world. They promised to write a full history of the years of the coming century.
To start with they needed a new population.
Once they had recorded their knowledge of post-war human conceptions in Book Zero,
the Historians could go on to record the New Births in Book One, and Names in Book Two, and then perhaps Childhood Diseases in Book Three and then perhaps Toys in Book Four.
In the last decade of the century there would be Historians to compile Book Ninety-Six on Fatal Illnesses,
Book Ninety-Seven would record Deaths, Book Ninety-Eight would record Funerals & Memorials,
Book Ninety-Nine would record Last Wills & Testaments and Book One Hundred would record Ghosts.
Here is Book Four to record Toys. »
Peter Greenaway (né en 1942, Newport, Pays de Galles, vit et travaille à Amsterdam) est un cinéaste et plasticien gallois, dont les expositions et installations ont pu être vues au Palazzo Fortuny, Venise, à la Galerie Joan Miro, Barcelone, le Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam ainsi qu'au Louvre. Réalisateur de 12 films et près de 50 courts métrages et documentaires, il est régulièrement nominé aux festivals de Cannes, Venise et Berlin. Il a collaboré avec les compositeurs Michael Nyman, Glen Branca, Wim Mertens, Jean-Baptiste Barriere, Philip Glass, Louis Andriessen, Borut Krzisnik et David Lang. Parmi ses œuvres majeures, Meurtre dans un jardin anglais, Le Cuisinier, le voleur, sa femme et son amant, The Pillow Book, The Tulse Luper Suitcases...
