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What are some good novels where the protagonist is an artist or where the visual arts are very prominent?

>> No.13834136

In Viriconium

>> No.13834209

>>13834136
Is this sci-fi?

>> No.13834273

>>13833924
>Difference and Repetition
Gogol's Nevsky Prospekt has an artist protagonist and themes of how he creates a perfect world (not through painting but dreaming) as escapism. It's excellent—Gogol's prose is consistently divine.

>> No.13834286

>>13833924
Unironically a lot of Balzac's novels. Balzac was found of painting and a lt of his description are basically attempts at painting with words.

>> No.13834288

De Hand Van Een Vreemde

>> No.13834309

Wittgenstein's Mistress
Browning's poetry

>> No.13834313

>>13834273
Thanks, bro. I love Gogol and this one seems to have slipped by my readings.

>>13834309
>Wittgenstein's Mistress
Is it actually good? I'm currently doing my Master's dissertation on Wittgenstein and have often wondered whether to read this book or not.

>> No.13834335

>>13834273
>Nevsky Prospekt
jesus he really likes this street

>> No.13834361

>>13834313
I thought it was a good book, unlike any other I've read. I don't know much about wittgenstein's philosophy though. He's not mentioned, or just briefly mentioned in the book.
It's about loneliness and memory, art and history, and language.

>> No.13834364

>>13834313
What are you writing on?

>> No.13834454

>>13834286
/thread

>> No.13834468

>>13834335
It is indeed an awesome avenue, even today with its droves of tourists. I've walked all along Nevsky and its transversal streets, small canals, churches, dead ends, stores and cafés. Russia is awesome, man.

>> No.13834509

>>13834468
Russia is the number one place I want to visit, Ive been studying the language for years, but only reading it, no experience speaking.

>> No.13835677

>>13833924
La Nausée

>> No.13835811
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>>13833924
the moon and sixpence by w somerset maugham

>> No.13835852

>>13833924
Life: A User's Manual by Perec

>> No.13835964

>>13833924
Fuck Seth Price
Reena Spaulings
Watteau in Venice
The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes
Picture This

>> No.13835991

>>13833924
Dorian Gray and The Tunnel

>> No.13836020

L'oeuvre by Zola is about a painter who is trying to paint his masterpiece

>> No.13836216

My name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok

>> No.13836593

>>13836020
I was going to post this.

>> No.13837478

I've been banned, for what?

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>>13833924
That one fanfic about the chick having an affair with Vivaldi.

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>>13833924
The Recognitions