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  • Camille Pissarro

    The Audacity of Impressionism

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    **A Best Book of 2023 by The New YorkerFrom the acclaimed biographer and author of Balzac’s Omelette, an engaging new work on the life of “the father of Impressionism” and the role his Jewish background played in his artistic creativity.**The celebrated painter Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) occupied a central place in the artistic scene of his time: a founding member of the new school of French ... Leer más

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  • Monsieur Proust's Library

    Reading was so important to Marcel Proust that it sometimes seems he was unable to create a personage without a book in hand. Everybody in his work reads: servants and masters, children and parents, artists and physicians. The more sophisticated characters find it natural to speak in quotations. Proust made literary taste a means of defining personalities and gave literature an actual role to play ... Leer más

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  • Venice for Lovers

    With an unforgettable novella and brilliant essays, a writing couple delivers "a love letter to an ancient Italian city by the sea" ( The Washington Post).Venice for Lovers is a memorable collaboration by two fine stylists who have fashioned their own personal homages to Venice, one with a novella, the other with a personal essay. Every year for all the thirty they have been married, Begley and ... Leer más

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  • The Pen and the Brush

    How Passion for Art Shaped Nineteenth-Century French Novels

    Traducido por Adriana Hunter ...
    A scintillating glimpse into the lives of acclaimed writers and artists and their inspiring, often surprising convergences, from the author of Monsieur Proust's LibraryWith the wit and penetration well known to readers of Anka Muhlstein’s work, The Pen and the Brush revisits the delights of the French novel. This time she focuses on late 19th- and 20th-century writers--Balzac, Zola, Proust, ... Leer más

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  • Unser Venedig

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    Zwei Autoren, wie sie auf den ersten Blick unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten: die französisch schreibende Sachbuchautorin Anka Muhlstein, der englisch schreibende Romancier Louis Begley. Während Begley seine Romanhelden immer wieder nach einem Ausweg aus dem Albtraum Geschichte suchen lässt, muss Muhlstein mit ihren vielfach ausgezeichneten Biographien mitten hinein in die Historie gehen. In ... Leer más

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  • Balzac's Omelette

    A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honore de Balzac

    ‘Tell me where you eat. what you eat, and at what time you eat, and I will tell you who you are.’ This is the motto of Anka Muhlstein’s erudite and witty book about the ways food and the art of the table feature in Honoré de Balzac’s writing.It is not a coincidence that Balzac was the first in French literature to tackle this appetizing topic. Before the French Revolution, a traveller in France ... Leer más

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  • Napoléon à Moscou

    En 1812, Napoléon est à la tête de la plus grosse armée qu’il ait jamais rassemblée. Il ouvre les hostilités contre le tsar Alexandre Ier, avec qui il a pourtant conclu une alliance. Un de ses ministres se désespère :« L’Empereur est fou ; tout cela finira par une épouvantable catastrophe. » Pourquoi cette décision ?Il pensait l’emporter vite. Mais il lui fallut avancer, avancer encore, jusqu’à ... Leer más

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  • Memoirs from Beyond the Grave: 1768-1800

    Written over the course of four decades, Francois-ReneÅL de Chateaubriand’s epic autobiography has drawn the admiration of Baudelaire, Flaubert, Proust, Roland Barthes, Paul Auster, and W. G. Sebald. In this unabridged section of the Memoirs, spanning the years 1768 to 1800, Chateaubriand looks back on the already bygone world of his youth. He recounts the history of his aristocratic family and ... Leer más

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    The Marquis de Custine’s record of his trip to Russia in 1839 is a brilliantly perceptive, even prophetic, account of one of the world’s most fascinating and troubled countries. It is also a wonderful piece of travel writing. Custine, who met with people in all walks of life, including the Czar himself, offers vivid descriptions of St. Petersburg and Moscow, of life at court and on the street, and ... Leer más

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  • Camille Pissarro. Le premier impressionniste

    Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) occupe une place centrale dans le monde des arts de son temps : membre fondateur de la nouvelle école de peinture française, l'impressionnisme, il a attiré autour de lui Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Degas, Berthe Morisot, puis Cézanne et Gauguin. Soutenu tout au long de sa carrière, malgré l'hostilité tenace du grand public, par le grand marchand d'art parisien Paul Durand ... Leer más

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  • Balzac's Omelette

    A Delicious Tour of French Food and Culture with Honoré de Balzac

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    The acclaimed biographer offers a fresh, insightful view of Balzac’s life, time, and works through the lens of food.“Tell me where you eat, what you eat, and at what time you eat, and I will tell you who you are.” This is the motto of Anka Muhlstein’s erudite and witty book about the ways food and the art of the table feature in Honoré de Balzac’s The Human Comedy. Balzac uses them as a connecting ... Leer más

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  • La Plume et le Pinceau

    L’empreinte de la peinture sur le roman au XIXe siècle

    Les grands romanciers du XIXe et du début du XXe siècle, notamment Balzac, Stendhal, les frères Goncourt, Zola, Maupassant et Proust, ont en commun un intérêt passionné pour la peinture, intérêt qui les a tous amenés à inventer de nombreux personnages de peintres, incités à regarder et à écrire en peintres et souvent à se transformer en critiques d’art. Balzac aurait voulu écrire avec les couleurs ... Leer más

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