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The Hidden Masterpiece

By Honoré de Balzac

2020-01-03 21:34:33

One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Hidden 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 ... Read more
One of Honore de Balzac's most celebrated tales, "The Hidden 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." Less

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File size35.491 KB
Print pages44
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1977806444
Honoré de Balzac was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comédie humaine, which presents a pan...

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