by Marguerite Yourcenar · Gallimard Jeunesse · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070538874
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«Comment Wang-Fô fut sauvé» is a short story by Marguerite Yourcenar, published by Gallimard Jeunesse in paperback (39 pages, in French).
Set in medieval China, the story follows an old painter, Wang-Fô, and his disciple. The mastery with which the artist portrays the world eventually arouses the emperor's wrath, and from that tension emerges a reflection on the power of the image and the possibility that art can transform reality.
Published in the Revue de Paris in 1936, it was included two years later in Nouvelles orientales; this edition belongs to the Folio Cadet collection and includes illustrations by Georges Lemoine.
Suitable reading for young learners starting French and for those wishing to discover Yourcenar's work in an illustrated edition.
French engraver, fl. 1888-1929
