Hertmans Stefan: Slikar i rat

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Author: Hertmans Stefan

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Author: Hertmans Stefan
Publisher: Fraktura d.o.o.
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Condition: Nova knjiga
Code: 68317

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Slikar i rat

Hertmans Stefan

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Stefan Hertmans: The Painter and the War

The life of Urbain Martien – an artist, a soldier, a man who survived the horrors of the First World War – is stored in two notebooks that he left behind after his death. When his grandson, a writer, opens them more than three decades later, the door to a whole long-lost world will open before him. Who really was Urbain Martien? A boy who grows up in the family of a poor fresco painter at the end of the 19th century? A boy who mixes his father's colors and defies death by working in his uncle's forge? A young man whom one of the most terrible war conflicts will turn from a painter into a soldier, or a man who will marry the sister of his beloved and carry his fate as a secret, until his grandson discovers it, decades later?

Hertmans Painter and War is one of those unusual novels that are loved and not forgotten. Telling the story of one man, he revives the image of his time for a moment, showing us how the people who brought us into the world lived, loved, dreamed and thought. Full of vivid details, meditations on painting and music, this fascinating dialogue between a dead painter and his grandson is a precious encounter between a past we have forgotten and a present we understand less and less.

The future classic... The Painter and War is the astonishing result of Hertmans' dealing with his grandfather's diaries. It is a book that lies at the crossroads of a novel, biography, autobiography and historical work, enriched with essays, meditations, and pictures. It seems as if it longs to be called Sebaldian, and that epithet it deserves masterfully.
– The Guardian

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