Optic Nerve
- 208pages
- 8 heures de lecture
An Argentinian woman obsessed with art conflates personal events from her life in Buenos Aires with fascinating episodes from art history, refracting her personality through the canvases she studies
Maria Gainza Livres
María Gainza est une auteure argentine dont l'écriture explore la relation complexe entre l'art et l'expérience humaine. Son œuvre, saluée pour son analyse pointue et son style poétique, examine comment l'art visuel façonne notre perception du monde et de nous-mêmes. Gainza entrelace habilement histoire, mémoire et identité au sein des créations artistiques, offrant aux lecteurs de nouvelles perspectives sur le monde de l'art. Son premier roman, acclamé par la critique, marque une entrée captivante dans ses explorations littéraires.
"In the Buenos Aires art world, a master forger has achieved legendary status. Rumored to be a woman, she specializes in canvases by the painter Mariette Lydis, a portraitist of Argentinean high society. But who is this absurdly gifted creator of counterfeits? What motivates her? And what is her link to the community of artists who congregate, night after night, in a strange establishment called the Hotel Melancólico? On the trail of this mysterious forger is our narrator, an art critic and auction house employee through whose hands counterfeit works have passed. As she begins to take on the role of art-world detective, adopting her own methods of deception and manipulation, she warns us 'not to proceed in expectation of names, numbers or dates... My techniques are those of the impressionist.' "-- Amazon.com
