The Unknown Masterpiece
- ISBN-10
- 0916870553
- ISBN-13
- 9780916870553
- Series
- The Unknown Masterpiece
- Category
- Fiction / General
- Pages
- 57
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1984
- Publisher
- Creative Arts Book Company
- Author
- Honoré de Balzac
Description
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.
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