by Honoré de Balzac · Artium, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo = Artium, Arte Garaikideko Euskal Zentro-Museoa. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788493423483
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«La obra maestra desconocida» is the short novel by Honoré de Balzac published by Artium in paperback, in a bilingual Spanish-Basque edition (116 pages).
The painter Nicolas Poussin visits the master Frenhofer, who has been hiding a canvas he considers his masterpiece for ten years. When he finally shows it, Poussin sees a tangle of colors with no recognizable form. Balzac reflects on the obsession with perfection, the tension between the idea and its execution, and the cost of creation.
Novel originally published in 1831. Edited and annotated by Javier González de Durana, translated by Cipriano Vidal, revised by Maria Jose Kerejeta. Basque text on facing pages.
For readers interested in classic literature and the creative process, with a bilingual Spanish-Basque edition.
Honoré de Balzac was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence La Comédie humaine, described as a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is generally viewed as his magnum opus.
