The pen and the brush
Subtitle: how passion for art shaped nineteenth-century French novels
By: Anka Muhlstein ; translated from the French by Adriana Hunter
Contributors: Hunter, Adriana, translator
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781590518052
Subjects: Arts in literature; Artists in literature; Painters in literature; History and criticism; Art in literature; French fiction
Description: "Anka Muhlstein revisits the delights of the French novel. This time she focuses on late 19th- and 20th-century writers--Balzac, Zola, Proust, Huysmans, and Maupassant--through the lens of their passionate involvement with the fine arts. She delves into the crucial role that painters play as characters in their novels, which she pairs with an exploration of the profound influence that painting exercised on the novelists' techniques, offering an intimate view of the intertwined worlds of painters and writers at the time."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-228).