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Forever Nude is an homage, a love letter, an impassioned, intimate record of the artist - a great friend of Matisse, a great enemy of Picasso - and an extraordinary evocation of the world of both artist and model.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49511337066769,"sku":"GOR005671910","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49596336832785,"sku":"GOR012609786","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":50751133778193,"sku":"NGR9780099471981","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53465071026449,"sku":"GOR002110641","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0099471981.jpg?v=1751322996"},{"product_id":"forever-nude-book-guy-goffette-9780434012435","title":"Forever Nude","description":"Stepping from the pavement onto the Boulevard Haussmann on that December morning in 1893, she is Marie, a farmer's daughter from the Midi. Rescued from the commotion of horses and carriages, she is escorted to the far side of the avenue by a diffident young artist named Pierre Bonnard. When at last they speak, she introduces herself as Marthe de Meligny, aristocratic daughter of Italian parents. It was as Marthe that she would, for fifty years, be Bonnard's lover and his muse. There are no nudes in Bonnard's work before Marthe.Afterwards, her body, perched naked above a mirror of water, at her toilette, or in the languor after lovemaking would dominate his work. It would be almost forty years before, on the eve of their marriage, Bonnard discovered that Marthe was Marie. In impressionistic, jewel-like sketches, poet and novelist Guy Goffette conjures the artist and his model; visits the gardens, houses and landscapes that Bonnard so gloriously depicted in the radiant colours, the sensual shapes and forms of his genius. \"Forever Nude\" is an homage, a love letter, an impassioned record of the artist - great friend of Matisse, great enemy of Picasso - who wanted only 'to appear before the young artist of the year 2000 on the wings of a butterfly...'","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49556612841745,"sku":"GOR013762739","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49727464341777,"sku":"GOR004087916","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50932082573585,"sku":"GOR002099284","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0434012432.jpg?v=1751434358"},{"product_id":"charlestown-blues-book-guy-goffette-9780226300740","title":"Charlestown Blues","description":"Curtains, blinds, draperies, shades, no, nothing Madame, to conceal from your Cyclops' eye in the shadows from which it spies on me this long pale body, false corpse tired out with debauchery, which is swooning too before your balcony, with your drying stockings and scanties of a nun at bay - poisonous flowers for a lonely man whom death panics, draws erect, demarrows in the night, riveted to your white thighs. Readers who denounce most contemporary French poetry as self-referential experimentation, word games, exercises in deconstruction, or other kinds of incomprehensible writing disconnected from everyday life - brace yourselves for a revelation. Erotic and urbane, distinguished by formal skill yet marked by the subtlest shades of feeling, Guy Goffette's unabashedly lyrical poems pay homage to both Verlaine and Rimbaud, whom he counts as his important forebears, with echoes of Auden and Pound, Pavese and Borges. In \"Charlestown Blues\", poet and translator Marilyn Hacker has chosen a tightly thematic selection of Goffette's poems, all centering around the notion of \"blue\" - the color and the emotion, as well as that quintessentially American style of musical performance. Hacker's crystalline and musical English renderings will show Anglophones why Goffette is considered one of the most important poets writing in French today.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51342224883985,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51342225146129,"sku":"GOR014229899","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226300749.jpg?v=1751431425"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-guy-goffette.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}