Envy by Alain Elkann
A writer and journalist falls victim to an obsessive curiosity about a famous artist: Julian Sax. He would like to meet Sax, but the painter is surrounded by an impenetrable protective screen. The writer's wife, Rossa, takes him to Tony's, the team room in London where Sax spends a few hours of his day.
[Alain] erects the scaffolding of a thorough examination of collector's envy -- Nora Mahony Times Literary Supplement Envy is a novel - or novella (125 airy pages, admirably translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen and handsomely produced by the Pushkin Press) - about the possibility of a novel that remains unwritten, which is about as postmodern as it getsIt's all a tease - of the painter and his lawyers, of the reader, and of the author himself... elegant, witty and provocative -- Lewis Jones New Statesman
Alain Elkann was born in New York in 1950. He is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines such as La Stampa, Lo Specchio, Nuovi argomenti, and Panta. A prize-winning novelist, essayist, and journalist, he has published over twenty books with Bompiani.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781901285819 |
| ISBN 10 | 1901285812 |
| Title | Envy |
| Author | Alain Elkann |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pushkin Press |
| Year published | 2008-05-28 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
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