Cover image for Gabriële / Anne Berest and Claire Berest ; translated from the French by Tina Kover.
Title:
Gabriële / Anne Berest and Claire Berest ; translated from the French by Tina Kover.
ISBN:
9798889660897

9781787706033

9781787705692
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Publication Information:
New York, NY : Europa editions, [2025]

©2025
Physical Description:
350 pages ; 24 cm
General Note:
Originally published in French: Paris : Stock, 2017.

Anne Berest and her sister Claire jointly write a novel based on the life of their great-grandmother, Gabriële Buffet-Picabia.
Summary:
"The year is 1908, the height of the Belle Époque, and a brilliant, young French woman named Gabriële, newly graduated from the most elite music school in Europe, meets a volcanic Spanish artist named Francis. Following a whirlwind romance, they marry and fall headlong into a Paris that is experimenting with new forms of living, thinking, and creating. Soon after marrying Francis, Gabriële meets Marcel, another young artist, five years her junior. Soon, Francis, Marcel, and Gabriële are all involved in a fervent affair that will change the course of art history and redefine the avant-garde. As the Belle Époque gives way to rebellion and revolution, and the world descends into the devastation of World War I, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, and Gabriële Buffet revolutionize art and open up new ways of seeing and thinking, along the way posing a vital question for their age and ours: what is the connection between new ways of loving and new ways of creating? Moving between Paris, New York, Berlin, Zurich, Barcelona, London, and Saint-Tropez, Gabriële is as audacious, uninhibited, intimate, and unforgettable as its central character, the mercurial, pioneering Gabriële Buffet."-- Amazon.
Language Note:
In English; translated from the French.
OCLC Number:
on1506025557
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