The pen and the brush

Description:

"Anka Muhlstein revisits the delights of the French novel. This time she focuses on late 19th- and 20th-century writers--Balzac, Zola, Proust, Huysmans, and Maupassant--through the lens of their passionate involvement with the fine arts. She delves into the crucial role that painters play as characters in their novels, which she pairs with an exploration of the profound influence that painting exercised on the novelists' techniques, offering an intimate view of the intertwined worlds of painters and writers at the time."--

subjects: Arts in literature,  Artists in literature,  Painters in literature,  History and criticism,  Art in literature,  French fiction,  French fiction, history and criticism,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY,  Literary,  ART,  History,  Modern (late 19th Century to 1945),  Artists, Architects, Photographers,  French fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism,  French fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism

Times: 20th century,  19th century