Uncannily Strange and Brief Life of Amedeo Modigliani

About the author

Velibor Colic was born in Bosnia in 1964. Since 1992 he has lived in France as a writer and freelance music journalist. His novel The Uncannily Strange and Brief Life of Amedeo Modigliani has been translated into French, Italian and German, and adapted as a radio play.

Summary

The life of the painter Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) was chaotic and tragically brief. Consisting of a series of vignettes, mostly set in the painter's studio and peopled by his lover Jeanne Hébuterne (who ended her own life the day after Modigliani's death), the prostitutes who were his occasional models and several Bohemian visitors, the novel spans the last months of Modigliani's life, evoking the strange workings of the painter's troubled and often drug-fuelled mind and its expression in his paintings, ultimately succeeding in conveying something of the intense artistic life of Paris in the first decades of the twentieth century.

Foreword

A scintillating account of the Italian painter's short, anarchic existence, published in time for a major exhibition at the Tate Modern

Product details

• Authors: Velibor Colic, Velibor (Author) Colic, Colic Velibor
• Assisted by: Celia Hawkesworth (Translation), Celia (Translator) Hawkesworth (Translation)
• Publisher: Pushkin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9781782274971
• ISBN: 978-1-78227-497-1
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Pushkin Blues
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre > Biographies, autobiographies