Masters and Servants

Informationen zum Autor Pierre Michon is an author of high acclaim in France and Europe. He was winner of the Prix France Culture in 1984 for his first book, Small Lives , and of the 1996 Prix de la Ville de Paris for his body of work. He lives in France. Wyatt Mason , a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and a contributing editor at Harper's, has translated writing by Pierre Michon, Eric Chevillard, Michel de Montaigne, and Arthur Rimbaud. He teaches at Bard College. Klappentext Imagines decisive moments in the lives of five artists of different times and places: Vincent van Gogh, Francisco Goya, Antoin Watteau, Claude Lorrain and Lorentino, a disciple of Piero della Francesca. The author focuses on particular moments when artist and model collide, whether that model is a person or a landscape, inner or outer. "Michon demonstrates the independence of voice that marks a true writer. . . . His supple prose, dappled with chiaroscuro effects, is used in straight forward chronicles. But his writing can at any time lift or lower into semi-hallucinatory effects that recall Arthur Rimbaud's assaults on conventional perception."--Roger Shattuck, The New York Review of Books--Roger Shattuck "The New York Review of Books " Zusammenfassung Imagines decisive moments in the lives of five artists of different times and places: Vincent van Gogh! Francisco Goya! Antoin Watteau! Claude Lorrain and Lorentino! a disciple of Piero della Francesca. The author focuses on particular moments when artist and model collide! whether that model is a person or a landscape! inner or outer.

Product details

• Authors: Pierre Michon, Michon Pierre
• Assisted by: Wyatt Mason (Translation), Mason Wyatt (Translation)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.10.2013
• EAN: 9780300180695
• ISBN: 978-0-300-18069-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Margellos World Republic of Le; The Margellos World Republic of Letters; World Republic of Letters (Yale); World Republic of Letters
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > History; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, FICTION; Literary FICTION; Short Stories; Biographical