by Anna Enquist · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782742734474
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«Le Chef-d'œuvre» is the novel by Anna Enquist, published in 2001 by Actes Sud in the Babel collection, in paperback, in French.
The painter Johan Steenkamer prepares for a major exhibition; his mother proposes a family dinner after the opening. The evening turns into a tension that drags the family toward a long-incubated catastrophe. The novel, structured as an opera in three acts, explores jealousy, resignation, manipulation, and betrayal in family neurosis.
First novel by Anna Enquist, written in Dutch and published as «Het meesterstuk» in 1994; it won the DebutantenPrijs in 1995. French translation by Nadine Stabile, in the Babel collection from Actes Sud, 2001.
Anna Enquist is the pen name of one of the more popular authors in the Netherlands, Christa Widlund-Broer. She is known for both her poetry and her novels.
