Bellocq's Women - Brossura

Everett, Peter

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ISBN 10: 0099289199 ISBN 13: 9780099289197

Casa editrice: Vintage, 2001

Riassunto

In 1912, in Storyville, the notorious red-light district of New Orleans, a photographer named E. J. Bellocq took a series of photographs of the women who worked in the brothels. Rediscovered in the 1950s, Bellocq's photographs have become famous, but the man himself remains a mystery.In Bellocq's Women, Peter Everett performs as remarkable a feat of fictional reconstruction as he did in Matisse's War and The Voyages of Alfred Wallis. All we have of Bellocq are his photographs and a few fragmentary memories; in this extraordinary novel Everett not only brings the photographer to life - and with him his strange, tortured relationship with his mother and two young girls, one his landlady's daughter, the other a child whore - but also his world - the opium dens and bar rooms of New Orleans and the whore houses with their surreal combination of violence and homeliness.

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Recensione:

“A subtle contribution to the interest that has grown up around a mysterious set of photographs, loosely known as ‘The Bellocqs’... Belloc’s Women quietly addresses some of the theoretical issues that arise from the art of photography, with a humanity that is no less impressive for being overshadowed by great pain. It is very much in style with the photographs that inspired it.” –TLS

L'autore:

Peter Everett’s eight previous novels include Matisse’s War, described by A.S. Byatt as “brilliant, fiercely intelligent and moving,” and The Voyages of Alfred Wallis. He died in 1999.

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• Editore: Vintage
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0099289199
• ISBN 13: 9780099289197
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 256