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  <title><![CDATA[The Unknown Masterpiece (New York Review Books Classics)]]></title>
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  <default_description>A New York Review Books Original&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;One of Honor&#233; de Balzac's most celebrated tales, &quot;The Unknown Masterpiece&quot; is the story of a painter who, depending on one's perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius&amp;#8212;or both. The story, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as C&#233;zanne, Henry James, Picasso, and New Wave director Jacques Rivette, is, in critic Dore Ashton's words, a &quot;fable of modern art.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Published here in a new translation by poet Richard Howard, &quot;The Unknown Masterpiece&quot; appears, as Balzac intended, with &quot;Gambara,&quot; a grotesque and tragic novella about a musician undone by his dreams.</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Honoré de Balzac]]></name>
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Be sure to read the introduction before starting the book, as it's helpful in understanding the three main characters.  The book is a must for anyone interested in portrait painting.  There's an interesting section in which an old painter says tp a younger one, &quot;You fill in your outline with fl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15929928">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1993</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Op de achterflap van de Nederlandse vertaling, uitgegeven bij de Arbeiderspers, staat o.a. &quot;Dit fameuze boek zouden onze schilders ten minste een keer per jaar moeten herlezen.&quot; <em>(Paul Cezanne.)</em><br/>Je kan het op een avondje uitlezen (amper 40 p) Dus waarom ook niet?<br/>Ondanks dat het g...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33639922">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Mar 25 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Picasso painted for twenty years at 7 rue des Grands Augustins in Paris - the very same address of the fictional artist, Frenhofer, in THE UNKNOWN MASTERPIECE. PIcasso revealed GUERNICA to the public 100 years after Balzac published his story.  If that's not a recommendation to read it, then I don't...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/50499593">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[With this very short story, Balzac invented abstract art way before Kandinsky did. Madness and art, 2 of my favorite subjects together in a single book.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've never read Balzac before--my interested was piqued by James Wood's adoration of the novelist. This book is actually composed of two longish stories, both concerning art and the ways it can break an artist. ...They're both so-so. I'd like to read a full Balzac novel to get a better sense of the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/17423544">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[These are two really great short stories.  In the first, four characters are drawn together by their passion for art.  One of them - the inspired genius (or the humiliated failure) is the center of the work and has served as inspiration for artists as varied as Cezanne, Henry James, and Picasso.  It...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5190773">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="1531091">
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting story, but what Balzac really has going for him here is an 1830s art-historical take on figure painting that presupposes the move from the classicism of Titian (et. al.) to Manet in the 1860s, and perhaps even De Koonig in the 20th century. Not only does Balzac secure a position as an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1531091">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Two short stories/novellas make up this book. The first, the title story is the shorter one, and I probably would have given the book three stars if it had ended there. The second <em>Gambara</em> made a big difference. The two stories combine into a much more interesting commentary on the nature of art, and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/29646654">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i've not read much of Balzac before, but i might again because this was a good tale well told. (doesn't Camus tell a story that's very similar?)]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[balzac creates stories so entrenched in detail that they honestly seem real...so detailed that i've already lost interest with his verboseness.]]></body>
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    <review id="31748407">
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    <body><![CDATA[تحت عنوان شاهكار كمنام به فارسي ترجمه شده<br/>از داستان هاي كوتاه بالزاك]]></body>
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