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The Unknown Masterpiece

The Unknown Masterpiece

Paperback

Series: New York Review Books Classics

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

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ISBN10: 0940322749
ISBN13: 9780940322745
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Aug 31 2000
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.46 Width: 4.98 Depth: 7.97
Language: English
A New York Review Books Original

One of Honoré 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 Cézanne, 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.

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