The Portrait (ePub)
a novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
If you, like me, come into the world white and completely blank, with nothing on you at all, you are totally dependent on what they make of you.The Portrait is an ingenious novel from one of Holland's greatest living writers. Reminiscent of Oscar Wilde's...
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If you, like me, come into the world white and completely blank, with nothing on you at all, you are totally dependent on what they make of you.The Portrait is an ingenious novel from one of Holland's greatest living writers. Reminiscent of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, it is narrated by a canvas—a key eye-witness to, and participant in, an extraordinary story.A young painter, loved for his fine and true-to-life portraits, receives a commission that is unlike any he's had before: make a portrait of a dead boy. 'You will save a life with it', says the boy's extremely rich father. The painter knows he will have to surpass himself. He takes on the job. But who was the boy? Why is he dead? Why, when the painting is finished, does the father not come to collect it? And why does the artist undertake this painting?The Portrait is a thrilling novel about the desire to bring someone into the world. But it is also about love and death, betrayal and trust, and truth and falsehood.In a breathtaking feat, Willem Jan Otten plays with secrets and riddles that the reader can only unravel at the very end. Masterfully translated by the award-winning David Colmer, Otten here demonstrates his rare gifts to English readers for the first time.
Autoren-Porträt von WILLEM JAN OTTEN
Willem Jan Otten, who was born in 1951, is a multi-award-winning Dutch poet, essayist, playwright, and novelist. His novel The Portrait, published in Holland as Specht en zoon ('Specht and Son'), was awarded that country's prestigious literary award, the Libris Literary Prize, in 2005.David Colmer was born in Adelaide in 1960. Since moving to Amsterdam in the early 1990s, he has published a wide range of translations of Dutch literature. He is also a published author of fiction, and in 2009 was awarded the biennial NSW Premier's Translation Prize.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: WILLEM JAN OTTEN
- 2009, Englisch
- Übersetzer: David Colmer
- ISBN-10: 1925113264
- ISBN-13: 9781925113266
- Erscheinungsdatum: 26.08.2009
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