Contre-Jour Gabriel Josipovici

Name: Contre-Jour By Gabriel Josipovici
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Contre-Jour by Gabriel Josipovici

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Summary

A novel based on the life of painter, Pierre Bonnard.

Contre-Jour Summary

Contre-Jour: A triptych after Pierre Bonnard by Gabriel Josipovici

Gabriel Josipovici's acclaimed novel reissued in 2018. Josipovici's novel is based on the life of Pierre Bonnard, the painter of enchanting domestic interiors and innocently unsensual nudes. A thoughtful and deeply felt piece told in three parts from the perspectives of Bonnard's wife, daughter, and the painter himself.

Contre-Jour Reviews

`Josipovici proves himself once again to be one of the very best writers now at work in the English language.' - The Guardian

About Gabriel Josipovici

Gabriel Josipovici was born in Nice in 1940 of Russo-Italian, Romano-Levantine parents. He lived in Egypt from 1945 to 1956, when he came to Britain. He read English at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating with a First in 1961. From 1963 to 1998 he taught at the University of Sussex. He is the author of sixteen novels, three volumes of short stories, eight critical works, and numerous stage and radio plays, and is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. His plays have been performed throughout Britain and on radio in Britain, France and Germany, and his work has been translated into the major European languages and Arabic.

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Sku

GOR003889150

ISBN 13

9781857544107

ISBN 10

1857544102

Title

Contre-Jour: A triptych after Pierre Bonnard by Gabriel Josipovici

Author

Gabriel Josipovici

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Carcanet Press Ltd

Year published

19980312

Number of pages

140

Prizes

N/A

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