Like all Toussaint's books, the protagonist in “Run” feels absolutely estranged from the world, in which he lives. He is involved in events, which he doesn’t understand and which remain unrevealed until the very end. “Run” is a novel of the movement, because the action is carried out in four different places: Beijing, Shanghai, Paris and the Elba Island. Most of the time the protagonist is running from his invisible chasers, but in an abstractive way he’s running from the world, from the hopeless relationship with his girlfriend and maybe – from himself.