num_pages: 288
description: In Joanna Scott's breakthrough novel Arrogance , the Austrian artist Egon Schiele comes to prismatic life in a narrative that defies convention, history, and identity. A self-professed genius and student of August Klimt, Scott's Schiele repeatedly challenges the boundaries of early twentieth-century Europe. Thrown in jail on charges of immorality, Schiele's Mephistophelean reputation only grows in stature until at the age of twenty-eight, the artist dies in the Great Flu Pandemic. Told from a crosscurrent of voices, viewpoints and times, this stunning novel won Scott a nomination for the 1991 PEN/Faulkner Award.
language: English
title: Arrogance
titlecomplete: Arrogance
genres: Fiction, Novels, Historical Fiction, American, Art
ratings_count: 126
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Rosenthal Family Foundation Award
publisher: Picador