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A compelling biography of the Polish painter and writer Józef Czapski that takes readers to Paris in the Roaring Twenties, to the front lines during WWII, and into the late 20th-century art world.Józef Czapski (1896-1993) lived many lives during his ninety-six years. He was a student in Saint Petersburg during the Russian Revolution and a painter in Paris in the roaring twenties. As a Polish reserve officer fighting against the invading Nazis ...

The first translation of painter and writer Józef Czapski's inspiring lectures on Proust, first delivered in a prison camp in the Soviet Union during World War II.During the Second World War, as a prisoner of war in a Soviet camp, and with nothing but memory to go on, the Polish artist and soldier Józef Czapski brought Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time to life for an audience of prison inmates. In a series of lectures, Czapski described t...

A visual companion to Marcel Proust's classic novel "In Search Of Lost Time", which features a range of famous and much-loved paintings such as Botticelli's angels, Manet's courtesans and Carpaccio's saints. Karpeles's essay explains the paintings' significance to Proust.

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Kaum ein Autor hat Gemälde so vollendet als erzählerisches Mittel einzusetzen gewusst wie Marcel Proust. In seinem Roman >Auf der Suche nach der Verlorenen Zeit< zeichnet er seine Figuren anhand von Bildern der europäischen Kunstgeschichte. Eric Karpeles macht diese enge Beziehung von Malerei und Literatur auf intelligente wie unterhaltsame Weise sichtbar. Er verbindet Botticellis Engel, Manets Kurtisanen, Mantegnas Krieger, Monets Seerosen od...