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Napisana z epickim rozmachem opowieść o szaleństwie, potędze sztuki, wielkiej miłości i tragedii sprzed lat. Znany malarz Robert Oliver rzuca się z nożem na obraz w Galerii Narodowej i zostaje umieszczony w szpitalu psychiatrycznym. Co nim kierowało? Prawdy usiłuje dociec doktor Marlow. Prowadząc...
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Napisana z epickim rozmachem opowieść o szaleństwie, potędze sztuki, wielkiej miłości i tragedii sprzed lat. Znany malarz Robert Oliver rzuca się z nożem na obraz w Galerii Narodowej i zostaje umieszczony w szpitalu psychiatrycznym. Co nim kierowało? Prawdy usiłuje dociec doktor Marlow. Prowadząc swoiste śledztwo, poznaje losy trzech kobiet, które wpłynęły na życie jego pacjenta: żony, kochanki i tej najważniejszej – Beatrice, żyjącej w Paryżu w
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788324718504
Publish date: September 22nd 2010
Publisher: Świat Książki
Pages no: 560
Edition language: Polski
The Swan Thieves is a novel supposedly modelled on Conrad's Lord Jim, following psychiatrist Andrew Marlow as he attempts to cure his patient Robert Oliver, a painter obsessed with one unknown woman, painting her over and over again with disturbing realism.I read The Swan Thieves because I had alrea...
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Andrew Marlow, by profession a psychiatrist who specializes in mental disorders in creative people, gets a new patient - acclaimed artist Robert Oliver, who has been arrested for attempting to slash a painting in the National Gallery. Other than a few cursory sentences on admission, Robert chooses ...
Loved The Historian. Didn't love The Swan Thieves. Kostova is an intelligent writer, but this book lives and dies on characterization and first person narrative, and I didn't feel like the various narrators' voices were distinct enough. They all sounded like Kostova.In addition, the level of deta...
I'm torn on this book. I enjoyed reading it - it moved along quickly, had an interesting plot. Things kept bothering me, though - for one thing, I didn't think much of the psychiatrist - and since he was in some ways the main character, there was no escaping this. Had he no concept at all of ethic...
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