Envy - Brossura

Elkann, Alain

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ISBN 10: 1901285812 ISBN 13: 9781901285819

Casa editrice: Pushkin Pr Ltd, 2008

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Thanks to a series of fortuitous encounters and circumstances, a writer falls victim to an obsessive curiosity about a famous artist, Julian Sax. He would like to meet Sax, but the great painter is surrounded by an almost impenetrable protective screen. The writer’s wife, the charming and sensuous Rossa, eventually takes him to Tony’s tea room in London where Sax spends a few hours of each day, accompanied by his children, models, and friends. The narrator begins to fear that his wife Rossa might succumb to the charm of this seductive man who attracts women, paints them, and then discards them. In an unpredictable sequence of events, Elkann weaves a fascinating web, blending reality and fiction and drawing the reader into the lives of characters who will prove hard to forget.

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Recensione:

(He) erects the scaffolding of a thorough examination of collector's envy. --Nora Mahony - Times Literary Supplement

Envy is a novel - or novella (125 airy pages, admirably translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen and handsomely produced by the Pushkin Press) - about the possibility of a novel that remains unwritten, which is about as postmodern as it gets. It's all a tease -- of the painter and his lawyers, of the reader, and of the author himself. (...) elegant, witty and provocative. --LEWIS JONES New Statesman

Envy is a novel - or novella (125 airy pages, admirably translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen and handsomely produced by the Pushkin Press) - about the possibility of a novel that remains unwritten, which is about as postmodern as it gets. It's all a tease -- of the painter and his lawyers, of the reader, and of the author himself. (...) elegant, witty and provocative --Lewis Jones - New Statesman

(he) erects the scaffolding of a thorough examination of collector's envy --Nora Mahony - Times Literary Supplement

L'autore:

Alain Elkann is a regular contributor to various Italian newspapers and magazines, such as La Stampa, Nuovi Argomenti, and Panta. A prize-winning novelist, essayist, and journalist, he has published more than 20 books. Alastair McEwan was a runner-up for the John Florio Prize for Italian Translation for his translation of Senior Service.

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