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The Pen and the Brush: How Passion for Art Shaped Nineteenth-Century French Novels
By Muhlstein, Anka
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Reviewed on November 15, 2016 | Arts and Humanities
It's no secret that some of the prominent 19th-century French writers were fanatical about art and artists. Mulhstein (Balzac's Omelette) probes the connection between author and artist by focusing on five writers: Honoré de Balzac, Émile Zola, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Guy de Maupassant, and Marcel Proust, to consider the roles of painters and paintings...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
