by Dominique Fernandez · Grasset & Fasquelle · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246643715
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«La course à l'abîme» is the historical novel by Dominique Fernandez, published by Grasset & Fasquelle in paperback (638 pages, in French).
The novel recreates the arrival in Rome in 1600 of an unknown painter who revolutionises painting with works of great power and eroticism, and his rise as official painter of the Church under the name of Caravaggio. It also portrays his marginal and violent side, his passions and his flight after killing a man, with a journey through Naples, Malta and Sicily to a mysterious death on a beach north of Rome.
The work was originally published in 2003 and belongs to the collection «Le roman de Caravage».
For readers of historical fiction interested in the Roman Baroque, the life of Caravaggio and the intricacies of art and power.
Dominique Fernandez is a French writer of novels, essays and travel books. Much of his writing explores homosexual experience and creativity. In 1982 he won the Prix Goncourt for his novel about Pier Paolo Pasolini; and in 2007 he was elected a member of the Académie Française.
