- Taschenbuch: 316 Seiten
- Verlag: Saint Martin's Press; Auflage: Reprint (Mai 1995)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0312131178
- ISBN-13: 978-0312131173
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,9 x 14 x 2,2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (3 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.437.176 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Recently, two inventive first-time novelists have taken a fresh approach to historical fiction and created fictional diaries of remarkable artists. The first was Jamie Fuller in The Diary of Emily Dickinson ; Kernan is the second. He chose the seventeenth-century Dutch painter Frans Hals because so little is known about his life, but also, we surmise, because Hals' earthy, affectionate portraits seem indicative of a passionate, unpretentious personality--in short, a great subject for a novel. The setup involves the discovery in a Long Island barn of what appear to be journals kept by the painter over the course of his long, cash-poor, but love-filled life. A gallery owner is consulted, and, leery of hoaxes, he decides to have the diaries translated. To keep things quiet, he tracks down a ne'er-do-well Dutch graduate student. Peter's life is chaotic and unsatisfying, but the minute he begins to read Hals' entries, he is hooked. And so we follow the parallel adventures of talented but bumbling Hals (by far, the more interesting of the two) and hapless Peter. Kernan's descriptions of Hals' hectic household, his deep attachment to his resilient wife and helpless infatuation with feisty student Judith Leyster, and his obsession with form and color and paint all make for a lively dramatization. Donna Seaman
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This smart, funny first novel from a seasoned reporter contains layers of meaning, yet keeps up a light and appealing tone. When a young boy discovers a seemingly ancient four-volume journal in a Long Island garage, an art dealer hires Peter Van Overloop--a Columbia graduate student who defines the term ``slacker''--to translate it from the Dutch and assist in deciding whether or not it is the authentic, and therefore extremely lucrative, work of 17th-century Dutch painter Frans Hals (who lived in Haarlem). Van Overloop immediately gets caught up in Hals's problems while trying to ignore his own. While he is house-sitting a downtown loft, his Upper West Side apartment is decimated by a fire, and when the loft owner comes home unexpectedly he is forced to migrate from apartment to apartment, at one point staying with a waitress whose true vocation is ``parade art,'' meaning that with her friends she dresses up in surreal costumes--her favorite is a vulva--and meanders through the park in her spare time. Meanwhile, Hals is dealing with almost constant poverty, the death of his first wife and subsequent marriage to an illiterate but loving woman, even another man in Haarlem of the same name who has been publicly chastised for beating his wife. There is no stiff historical prose, since Van Overloop has been instructed to translate the writing into everyday English. The diary, in fact, makes engrossing reading. Frans Hals emerges as tremendously human: At one point he masturbates while spying on his prot‚g‚e as she takes a bath; after his first wife's death, he torments himself with a memory of having slapped her back while she was ill. A loopy tale that manages to be both intellectual and fun. (4- page color insert of Hals's paintings, not seen) -- Copyright ©1994, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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This book slowly seduces you into rooting for the diaries, the writer and the translator. Are the diaries by Frans Hals or not? You want them to be...but how could they be -- there is a separation of over 300 years! The author weaves an intricate pattern of present and past lives with the characters of Hals(?) and the translator. I read this in a week and just got SUCKED in. Buy and read if you like books with inserts from the past intermingled with the present.
Format:Taschenbuch
We were amazed with wonder looking at his paintings in Amsterdam during a recent trip. This delightfully intriguing book combines factual historical events and people with a delightful story. Even if your interest in paintings consists of whitewashing the fence, this book will keep you page turning.
Format:Taschenbuch
This is a thoroughly enjoyable, wonderful story. I loved this book. I missed it when it first came out, maybe others did as well. It was a perfect August read but would be equally great on a rainy fall day. I didn't want to put it down, I became as engrossed in Hals life as van Overloop did. I want more from this author
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