Name: The Bill: For Palma Vecchio, at Venice (The Art Monographs)
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Author: László Krasznahorkai
ISBN: 9780956992093

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The Bill: For Palma Vecchio, at Venice (The Art Monographs)

Type

Physical Book

Author

László Krasznahorkai

Publisher

Sylph Editions

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

16.5 x 23.5 cm

ISBN13

9780956992093

The Bill: For Palma Vecchio, at Venice (The Art Monographs)

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Synopsis "The Bill: For Palma Vecchio, at Venice (The Art Monographs)"

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.

“László Krasznahorkai’s taut, almost explosive texts resemble prose poems more than short stories or conventional novella chapters, though they do not pretend to lyricism.”—Nation

László Krasznahorkai

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László Krasznahorkai (Gyula, Hungría, 1954) recorrió durante años el país después de estudiar en Budapest y ejerció diversas profesiones en pueblos y ciudades de provincias. Acantilado ha publicado Melancolía de la resistencia (2001)—con la que se presentó a los lectores en lengua española—, Al Norte la montaña, al Sur el lago, al Oeste el camino, al Este el río (2005), Guerra y guerra (2009), Ha llegado Isaías (2009), Y Seiobo descendió a la Tierra (2015), Tango satánico (2017), Relaciones misericordiosas (2023) y El barón Wenckheim vuelve a casa (2024). Varias de sus obras han sido llevadas al cine. En 2004 recibió del Gobierno húngaro el Premio Kossuth, uno de los más prestigiosos de su país, por el conjunto de su obra; en 2015, el Man Booker International; en 2021, el Premio Austríaco de Literatura Europea, y en 2024, el Premio Formentor de las Letras.

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