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Albert Camus: A Life

by Olivier Todd

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""You arrive in a sweat and out of breath, push a little blue gate and avoid being scratched by the bougainvilleas, and there is still a stairway to climb, as steep as ladder, but in a bluetinged shade which already quenches your thirst. They call it the House on Top of the World, looking out on the whole landscape like a balloon's basket hanging in the sky, brilliant above the world's colored dance."" — Jan 08, 2017 02:42PM

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The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th-Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece

by Laura Cumming

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"That's exactly how I feel when I saw Drago Popovich in Belvedere Palace. I couldn't move when I saw the man's eyes. He was looking at me, through hundreds of years. He was smiling and attempting to explore who I am, just as my curiosity to him. Decent, sympathetic, intelligent, cultivated. He is so charming and it is just a painting? It's magic..." — Jan 04, 2017 08:24AM

Jan 04, 2017 07:53AM