Book
Painting time
Call Number
- FICTION KERA (CEN)
Edition
First American edition.
Languages
Translated from the French.
Publication Information
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Physical Description
230 pages ; 22 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
In Maylis de Kerangal's Painting Time, we are introduced to the burgeoning young artist Paula Karst, who is enrolled at the famous Institut de Peinture in Brussels. With the attention of a documentary filmmaker, de Kerangal follows Paula's apprenticeship, punctuated by brushstrokes, hard work, sleepless nights, sore muscles, and long, festive evenings. After completing her studies at the Institute, Paula continues to practice her art in Paris, in Moscow, then in Italy on the sets of great films, all as if rehearsing for a grand finale: at a job working on Lascaux IV, a facsimile reproduction of the world's most famous paleolithic cave art and the apotheosis of human cultural expression.
Notes
"Originally published in French in 2018 by Éditions Gallimard, France, as Un monde à portée de main."--Title page verso
"English translation originally published in 2021 by Talonbooks, Canada"--Title page verso