by Ollivier Pourriol · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253115199
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«Le Peintre au couteau» is the novel by Ollivier Pourriol, published by LGF/Le Livre de Poche in paperback (215 pages, in French).
An eighty-five-year-old painter, bedridden by appendicitis, reveals to his surgeon a world that is fading. In their conversations appear Dubuffet, Camus, Simone de Beauvoir and Nicolas de Staël. The painter passes on to the doctor the most precious thing he has: his way of seeing; a reflection on old age, death and the beauty of the end.
Published in April 2006, the novel belongs to contemporary fiction and this edition is in paperback with 215 pages.
A read for those who enjoy art, memory and reflections on old age and the transmission of a way of seeing.
