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"One of Balzac's most celebrated tales, The Unknown Masterpiece is the story of a painter who, depending on one's perspective, is either an abject failure or a transcendental genius - or both. This work, which has served as an inspiration to artists as various as Cezanne, Henry James, Picasso, and New Wave film director Jacques Rivette, is, in critic Dore Ashton's words, a "fable of modern art."".
"Published here in an outstanding new translation by the poet Richard Howard, The Unknown Masterpiece appears, as Balzac intended, with Gambara, a grotesque and tragic novella about a composer undone by his dreams."--BOOK JACKET.
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The Unknown Masterpiece
December 8, 2005, Kessinger Publishing, LLC
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The unknown masterpiece: and, Gambara
2001, New York Review Books
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The Unknown Masterpiece: Signed Limited Edition of 50 Copies with Original Paintings Used for the Binding
1996, Enitharmon Press
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"Limited to thirty-five copies, plus five proof copies ... Designed by Charles Hobson and consists of two parts, a bound letter-press volume containing Balzac's novel and a portfolio of the six etching-engravings accompanied by key fragments of the text ... Signed in the colophon by the artist and the designer, and the artist has signed each print"--Colophon.
LC has copy no. 11.
Source: Purchase, Jan. 26, 1994 (DLC #PO94/27575).
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