The Origin of the World
Publisher
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Actes Sud
Parution date
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2000
EAN
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9782742728787
Description
What led a dwarf named Bergamme to set fire to the Grand Central Museum on March 23, 2020? What drove him, in his half-burned state, to try to sneak off with Courbet’s famous work «L’Origine du monde»? Bergamme, a kleptomaniac suffering from the rarest of so-called «museum-phobic» pathologies. All that may ever be understood of the Bergamme case is contained in the confession he made to the narrator/reporter of this account before he died from the burns. L’Origine du monde is a puzzling, tragicomic detective novel, and a criminal investigation into philosophical musings, which delves into the nature of modern art. It has been nominated for the Prix Interallié.
Author
Rezvani : A painter, songwriter, dramatist, poet and novelist, Rezvani is the author of L’Enigme (Actes Sud, 1995), La Cité Potemkine (Actes Sud, 1997) and Un fait divers esthétique (Actes Sud, 1999).
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