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Fiction. Short Story. Translated from the French by Anthony
Rudolph. GILLETTE OR THE UNKNOWN MASTERIECE is one of Balzac's most
brilliant and fascinating works, and one of the great short stories
in European literature. It has been widely influential among
painters and writers since its early editions, and speaks to our
own days in unexpected ways. Anthony Rudolf has made the first
complete translation into English in over eighty years. In a long
accompanying essay he discusses the text as a love story, as a
parable of writing told in terms of painting, and as a remarkable
foreshadowing of certain later developments in art, such as the
work of Giacometti. He also discusses the sexual, mythological,
financial and other aspects of this extraordinary multi-layered
text, and vigorously contests the widespread view that Frenhofer is
nothing but a failure and his painting nothing but a disaster. This
reprint marks Balzac's bicentenary and Menard's 30th birthday.
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