The Unknown MasterpieceAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 31 August 2000
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A New York Review Books Original
One of Honoré de Balzacs most celebrated tales, "The Unknown Masterpiece" is the story of a painter who, depending on ones perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius—or both. The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Cézanne, Henry James, Picasso, and New Wave director Jacques Rivette, is, in critic Dore Ashtons words, a "fable of modern art."
Published here in a new translation by poet Richard Howard, "The Unknown Masterpiece" appears, as Balzac intended, with "Gambara," a grotesque and tragic novella about a musician undone by his dreams.
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