The Unknown Masterpiece (New York Review Books Classics) by Honoré de Balzac
By Honoré de Balzac
Considered one of Honore de Balzac’s so much celebrated stories, “The Unknown Masterpiece” is the tale of a painter who, looking on one’s viewpoint, is both an abject failure or a transcendental genius — or either. the tale, which has served as an idea to artists as a number of as Cezanne, Henry James, Picasso, and New Wave director Jacques Rivette, is, in critic Dore Ashton’s phrases, a “fable of contemporary art.” released the following in a brand new translation through poet Richard Howard, “The Unknown Masterpiece” seems to be, as Balzac meant, with “Gambara,” a ugly and tragic novella a few musician undone through his goals. "The maximum novelist of the 19th century and maybe of all time." -- the recent York instances
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But I guess that’s not the point now, is it? ” The Slip Once she was gone, I downed another cola, then took a hot shower and shaved. I was down to the bottom on just about everything—soap, shampoo, shaving cream. I stepped out of the shower and dried my hair, rubbed on body lotion, cleaned my ears. Then to the kitchen to heat up the last of the coffee. Only to discover: no one sitting at the opposite side of the table. Staring at that chair where no one sat, I felt like a tiny child in a De Chirico painting, left behind all alone in a foreign country.
Such things happened often enough, so how could I think her leaving me was anything out of the ordinary? The long and the short of it was, it was up to her. “The long and short of it is, it’s up to you,” I said. It was a Sunday afternoon, as I dawdled with a pull-ring from a beer can, that she came out with it. Said she wanted a divorce. ” she asked, releasing her words slowly. “No, either way is not fine with me,” I said. ” “If you want to know the truth, I don’t want to leave you,” she said after a moment.
Sex with her with her ears exposed was an experience I’d never known. When it was raining, the smell of the rain came through crystal clear. When birds were singing, their song was a thing of sheer clarity. I’m at a loss for words, but that’s what it was like. ” I once asked her. “Of course not,” she said. ” “A duty. Dry and tasteless, like chewing newsprint. But that’s okay. ” “Then you ought to show them,” I said. ” For sure, there were a lot of things I didn’t understand at all. For instance, the reason why she treated me special.