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message 1: by KZ (last edited Sep 27, 2025 07:54AM) (new) - rated it 5 stars

KZ (mariakazarian) | 58 comments Hello.

Please could you add the following edition to the existing Goodreads page for the book:

* Link to book page which includes the cover and other book data: https://www.amazon.com/My-Life-Marc-C...

* Title: My Life

* Author names: Marc Chagall, Dorothy Williams (Translator)

* ISBN-10 (proof from my photo, it's at the bottom of the pic https://imgur.com/a/nUZMqd4 and Amazon link also confirms this): 0720606608

* Publisher (Amazon lists this incorrectly, my photo for proof and the same ISBN as Amazon https://imgur.com/a/rJ2ZD2f) : Peter Owen Publishers

* Publication Date Year (same as Amazon despite their incorrect Publisher name, proof https://imgur.com/a/rJ2ZD2f) : 1985

* Page count (same as Amazon): 171

* Format: Hardcover

* Description copied from book flap (proof from my copy https://imgur.com/a/nUZMqd4) :

The 1980s have seen a renewed surge of interest in the work of Marc Chagall, both in Europe and the United States, culminating in the major exhibition mounted jointly by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A notable feature of that exhibition was the spotlight on quotations taken from Chagall's autobiography, My Life. Chagall's My Life has established itself as a modern classic since it first appeared in English translation in 1965. The book is a lyrical and evocative account of the artist's early life, and a key work for the light it throws on the shaping of Chagall's creative genius. His literary style, playful and witty, with arabesques of fantasy that remind us of his visual imagery, is put to painterly effect in his descriptions of his childhood in the provincial Russian town of Witebsk, his early adventures, and his first meeting with Bella, who was later to become his wife. His struggle as an artist in the face of poverty and opposition was followed by his fruitful years in Paris after 1910—the city where he found fulfilment and recognition. After recalling these experiences, Chagall tells us of his return to Russia on the outbreak of the Great War, and of the despair that finally induced him to go back to France with Bella and their young daughter in 1922. 'These pages have the same meaning as a painted surface,' Chagall writes in summary. 'If there were a hiding place in my pictures I would slip them into it.' After reading My Life the watchful reader may decide that this is precisely what he has done. My Life is animated by fifty black-and-white illustrations specially interwoven with the text by Chagall.

* Cover photo taken by me: https://imgur.com/a/MhMZImJ

Thank you very much!


message 2: by Emmy (new)

Emmy de Reus (nyneve) | 20400 comments A booklisting for this ISBN was already created on 2008-07-14 with a latest update by the amazon_catalog bot on Nov 08, 2023:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

I updated the record and replaced the existing cover image by yours.
It may take some time for the page to fully update.


message 3: by KZ (new) - rated it 5 stars

KZ (mariakazarian) | 58 comments Emmy wrote: "A booklisting for this ISBN was already created on 2008-07-14 with a latest update by the amazon_catalog bot on Nov 08, 2023:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...

I updated the rec..."


You're amazing Emmy, thank you for all your help!


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