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LONG-LISTED FOR THE PRIX RENAUDOT 2013 In this Dictionnaire amoureux de Marcel Proust, the two authors split the task, Raphaël Enthoven minutely and textually exploring À la recherche du temps perdu, and Jean-Paul Enthoven the variations on Proust himself. For each entry, the authors have also decided to refrain from going over once again the classic aspects of Proustism (several admirably complete dictionaries already exist which address the subject) but to point out the bizarre things, the “angles”, the heretofore uncommented “curiosa”. From “A as in Agony” to “Z as in Zinedine de Guermantes”, from “Datura” to “Rhinogoménol” and “Kabbale” to “Asparagus”, from “Plotin” to “Schopenhauer” or “Walter Benjamin”, they obviously enjoy discussing Proust, whom both have always revered, in terms of his biography as much as his literary genius, and each of their reflections adds to the fascinating substance of their text. Those who are Proustians at heart will be amply satisfied, as will intellectual Proustians. Several extracts of correspondence and of the actual works are reprinted in this mischievous and erudite dictionary for lovers, a work as scholarly as it is amusing. NOVEMBER 2013 Centenary celebration of the publ
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Sometimes, an exhibition is staged that justifies the overused phrase “must-see”. Sensation, the show that launched the YBAs, at the Royal Academy in 1997, was one of these (I didn’t see it, having not the slightest idea it was happening on my arrival in London as a green and careless undergraduate). Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan at the National Gallery, in 2011, was another (that one I saw twice).
Both of these had their controversies - Sensation was criticised as a bald attempt by organiser Charles Saatchi to raise the value of the work in his collection by placing it in museums. The inclusion and full attribution in the Leonardo show of the famous Salvator Mundi (c. 1499-1510), bought in 2017 at Christie’s in New York for $450.3m by Prince Badr bin Abdullah Al Saud, but how much of which Leo himself actually painted, if any, has long been disputed, kicked off an international scandal of sorts that has rumbled on ever since.
It remains to be seen whether anything especially controversial will come out of the National’s new exhibition, Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers, but my God, see it if you can. It’s wonderful.
Despite his fame and popularity, Van Gogh is one of those artists it’s easy to think you don’t care for. I think that’s at least part