The Bill
For Palma Vecchio, at Venice
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Contributions
- George Szirtes - Translator
Publication
2013-11-15 - Sylph Editions, London, England
Language
English
Translation of: Számla: Palma Vecchiónak, Velencébe
Word Count
8,000 words, Guess
Page Count
32 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL28125065M
- ISBN-139780956992093
- ISBN-100956992099
- OCLC Control Number858825077
- Amazon0956992099
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- Goodreads17674263
Classifications
- DDC894.51134
- LCCND623
Description
In The Bill, László Krasznahorkai’s madly lucid voice pours forth in a single, vertiginous, eleven-page sentence addressing Palma Vecchio, a sixteenth-century Venetian painter. Peering out from the pages are Vecchio’s voluptuous, bare-breasted blondes, a succession of models transformed on the canvas into portraits of apprehensive sexuality. Alongside these women, the writer that Susan Sontag called “the Hungarian master of apocalypse” interrogates Vecchio’s gift: Why does he do it? How does he do it? And why are these models so afraid of him even though he, unlike most of his contemporaries, never touches them? The text engages with the art, asking questions only the paintings can answer.
Subjects
Series Statement
- The Art Monographs, 2
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