The Pen and the Brush: How Passion for Art Shaped Nineteenth-Century French Novels

With the wit and penetration well known to readers of Balzac's Omelette (Other Press, 2011) and Monsieur Proust's Library (Other Press, 2015), Anka Muhlstein's Pen And Brush revisits the delights of the French novel. This time she focuses on late 19th- and 20th-century writers Balzac, Zola, Proust, Huysmans and Maupassant - through the lens of their passionate involvement with the fine arts.