A masterpiece of fantasy

Memory and Dream by Charles de Lint

This story had a deep impact on me. It opens with an innocent sketch in a town square; it soon becomes a deeply engaging study of the act of creation and the mind of an artist.

If I took out my editor's pencil, I'd only be able to mark one paragraph in the entire book, where a minor character is granted a bit too much page space to rant about his over-intellectualised opinions of art. It is in character though. And that's it. The single tiny flaw I was aware ...