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About the Book

The secret behind the smile is revealed.

Three things have led the young nobleman Bougainville to his great, tragic love: war (he went to fight the Spanish for his king), art (his army visited Florence to do some light shopping) and the humble housefly (which he was chasing through Leonardo da Vinci's workshop when he stumbled upon her, leaning on an easel hidden behind a curtain).

He is plunged into an amour fou for his Mona Lisa - too beautiful, too real to have been imagined, however great the artist - and his attempts to find her prove wild, violent, even fatal.

Lernet-Holenia's novella is the brilliantly funny story of how art inspires a tremendous love - pure, for all its madness - and is inspired by it in turn.

Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897-1976) was a popular, prolific and provocative Austrian novelist, screenwriter and poet. His work was greatly admired by his peers, but usually loathed by the authorities - he was among the writers blacklisted by the Nazis. After the war, he collected all the most important national literary awards going, including the Great Austrian State Prize, and was elected the President of Austrian PEN in 1969.



About the Author :
Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897-1976) served in the Austro-Hungarian army in the First World War and was later a protege of Rainer Maria Rilke's. He wrote poetry, plays and novels, including the acclaimed noir thriller I Was Jack Mortimer (published by Pushkin Press), and was also a successful screenwriter. His uneasy relationship with the National Socialist Party resulted in his fall from prominence in 1944, but after the end of the Second World War he again became a vital figure in Austrian cultural life.

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A fascinating snapshot of Vienna between the wars, pacey and entertaining Guardian Exquisite. The Independent A beautiful bagatelle... fun and surprising John Self Brilliant... excellently written and fearsomely gripping The Times (of London) I thoroughly enjoyed this short book because of the characterisation of Da Vinci and the little mystery surrounding the empty tomb of Mona Lisa The Bookbinder's Daughter


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781782271901
  • Publisher: Pushkin Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Pushkin Press
  • Height: 165 mm
  • No of Pages: 96
  • Series Title: Pushkin Collection
  • ISBN-10: 1782271902
  • Publisher Date: 05 Nov 2015
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Width: 120 mm


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