Optic nerve
Gainza, María, 1975-2019
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The narrator is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The story of her life is the story of the paintings, and painters, who matter to her. Her intimate, digressive voice guides us through a gallery of moments that have touched her. In these pages, El Greco visits the Sistine Chapel and is appalled by Michelangelo's bodies. The mystery of Rothko's refusal to finish murals for the Seagram Building in New York is blended with the story of a hospital in which a prostitute walks the halls while the narrator's husband receives chemotherapy.
Main title:
Optic nerve / María Gainza ; translated from the Spanish by Thomas Bunstead.
Author:
Gainza, María, 1975-, authorBunstead, Thomas, translator
Imprint:
London : Harvill Secker, 2019.
Collation:
209 pages ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781787300279 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
863.7
Language:
EnglishSpanish
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BRN:
1862977
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