The Dance of Geometry

Résumé du livre

BRIAN HOWELL has masterfully interwoven three imagined episodes from the life of Johannes Vermeer. We observe the painter's own childhood and apprenticeship. We read a crime story involving an episode from the life of a modern-day 'copyist' who is blackmailed into forging a masterpiece to save the woman he loves. We follow a French connoisseur who travels to Delft to visit Vermeer, only to find himself embroiled in a clandestine and deadly debate of the Painter's Guild about a new invention. Howell has created a work of breathtaking originality. Not only does this novel provide imaginative insight into the formation of an artist's 'vision', charting his developing obsession with geometry and remoteness--but Howell illuminates the very act of seeing, in a way that informs us about the creative process. Katherine Weber wrote, "this is a rich and sensuous read by a thoughtful and exquisitely attuned writer."