by Adrien Goetz · Bernard Grasset · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782246855736
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«Villa Kérylos» is the historical novel by Adrien Goetz, published by Bernard Grasset in 2017 in paperback (347 pages, in French).
Set in the famous Villa Kérylos on the French Riviera, built by Théodore Reinach as a tribute to Greek art, the novel follows Achille, son of the Eiffels' cook, who becomes a scholar. Now elderly, he returns to the villa and, room by room, rediscovers his past: Alexander the Great, Mount Athos and Ariane, his love.
The cover shows the subtitle «roman» and the work is also classified under Literature and Fiction.
For readers of historical fiction set in France, with an interest in art, architecture and stories of memory and love.
Adrien Goetz is a French Art History Professor, art critic and novelist. He graduated from the École Normale Supérieure. His work appeared in Zurban, and Beaux-Arts Magazine. He is Lecturer in Art History at the Sorbonne, and the Editor of Grande Galerie, the magazine published by the Louvre Museum. Adrien Goetz was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts - Institut de France in December 2018.
