Resultados para "The Artist" en Ficción contemporánea

I quadri dell'anziano pittore Masuji Ono «per il momento sono riposti altrove». Il Giappone ha perso la guerra e chi ne ha appoggiato ed esaltato, come Ono, la politica imperialista e fascista, è stato messo in disparte. L'eufemismo della rimozione è soltanto un esempio delle ambiguità generate dai toni cerimoniosi e pacati di Ono, narratore delle vicende di questo romanzo. Si rende conto il già famoso pittore del marchio d'infamia che grava sul suo passato, o l'ha rimosso, come il mondo dell'arte ha rimosso le sue tele gonfie di retorica?

"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is the first novel of Irish writer James Joyce. A Künstlerroman in a modernist style, it traces the intellectual and religious philosophical awakening of young Stephen Dedalus, a fictional alter ego of Joyce and an allusion to Daedalus, the consummate craftsman of Greek mythology. Stephen questions and rebels against the Catholic and Irish conventions under which he has grown, culminating in his self-exile from Ireland to Europe.

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The Rock Artist's Progress is set against the backdrop of the musical revolution that started with the Beatles and begins in 1968, a year after the Summer of Love and follows the story of Daniel Luckham, a young classical pianist studying at the Royal College of Music. Seduced by the rock music scene and vibrant counterculture in London at that time, he contrives to leave college and pursue a career in rock. But some bad decisions lead him down a dark and dangerous alley.