Honore de Balzac,Arthur Coleman Danto,Richard Howard: The Unknown Masterpiece: And, Gambara
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Author: Honore de Balzac,Arthur Coleman Danto,Richard Howard
Number of Pages: 160 pages
Published Date: 24 Aug 2001
Publisher: The New York Review of Books, Inc
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780940322745
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A New York Review Books Original One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painter who, depending on one's perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius or both. The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Cezanne, Henry James, Picasso, and New Wave director Jacques Rivette, is, in critic Dore Ashton's words, a "fable of modern art." Published here in a new translation by poet Richard Howard, "The Unknown Masterpiece" appears, as Balzac intended, with "Gambara," a grotesque and tragic novella about a musician undone by his dreams."