I Was the Origin of the World
Publisher
:
Albin Michel
Parution date
:
2000
EAN
:
9782226116697
Description
Who really posed for that unique and outrageous painting by Gustave Courbet? It was a young Irish girl, with devilish beauty and a scandalous reputation, who had a brief if pictorial love affair with the artist. Courbet asked her almost immediately to pose for the shocking portrait. After discovering letters from the artist’s mistresses, she decided to accept his mad proposal in order to become more than just another lover. Instead, through the artist’s genius, she would become the woman who incarnates all women. She offered him her belly, her thighs, and, right in the middle of the painting—her sex. Overwhelmed with shame when she saw the work, she thought of destroying it, but fled instead, devastated by the certainty that it was, indeed, a masterpiece.
Author
Christine Orban : Christine Orban grew up in Casablanca and is now a journalist as well as the author of a number of previous novels, including N’oublie pas d’être heureuse (Albin Michel 2009) and La mélancholie du Dimanche (Albin Michel, 2004). A memoir, One Day My Sister Disappeared, was published in English by Random House in 2004 and in Random House trade paperback in 2005.
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