Almost Nothing
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Almost Nothing by Eric Karpeles
A compelling biography of the Polish painter and writer J zef Czapski that takes readers to Paris in the Roaring Twenties, to the front lines during WI, and into the late 20th-century art world.J zef Czapski (1896-1993) lived many lives during his ninety-six years. He was a student in Saint Petersburg during the Russian Revolution and a painter in Paris in the roaring twenties. As a Polish reserve officer fighting against the invading Nazis in the opening weeks of the Second World War, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets. For reasons unknown to this day, he was one of the very few excluded from Stalin's sanctioned massacres of Polish officers. He never returned to Poland after the war, but worked tirelessly in Paris to keep alive awareness of the plight of his homeland, overrun by totalitarian powers. Czapski was a towering public figure, but painting gave meaning to his life. Eric Karpeles, also a painter, reveals Czapski's full complexity, pulling together all the threads of this remarkable life.
Eric Karpeles is a painter, writer, and translator who lives in New York City. Paintings in Proust is a detailed guide to the junction of literary and visual aesthetics in the work of the renowned French novelist. He's written about poet Elizabeth Bishop's paintings as well as the end of life as seen through the works of Emily Dickinson, Gustav Mahler, and Mark Rothko. He is also the translator of Józef Czapski's Lost Time: Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp and Lorenza Foschini's Proust's Overcoat. He is the painter of The Sanctuary and the Mary and Laurance Rockefeller Chapel. He is a resident of Northern California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781681372846 |
| ISBN 10 | 1681372843 |
| Title | Almost Nothing |
| Author | Eric Karpeles |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The New York Review of Books, Inc |
| Year published | 2018-11-06 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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