The unknown masterpiece
Subtitle: and, Gambara
By: Honoré de Balzac ; translated by Richard Howard ; introduction by Arthur C. Danto.
Contributors: Howard, Richard, 1929-; Balzac, Honoré de, 1799-1850.
Series: New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
Other titles: Unknown masterpiece ; and, Gambara; Gambara.
Description: "One of 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. This work, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Cezanne, Henry James, Picasso, and New Wave film director Jacques Rivette, is, in critic Dore Ashton's words, a "fable of modern art."".

"Published here in an outstanding new translation by the poet Richard Howard, The Unknown Masterpiece appears, as Balzac intended, with Gambara, a grotesque and tragic novella about a composer undone by his dreams."--BOOK JACKET.