The Forger - Softcover

The Forger

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 338 pages. I reached Paris early in the summer of 1939, begins narrator David Halifax. Fo llowing in the footsteps of another generation of American expatriates, he has c ome to Paris for the sake of art (in his case, at the atelier of the temperament al and brilliant Alexander Pankratov). And like those earlier artists, he has ar rived at a particularly crucial moment, as France is simultaneously preparing fo r and ignoring the threat of war. David vows to ignore the vagaries of the quoti dian, however, immersing himself in his painting, down to the minutest detail, s o that it would stop being the whole picture and would break down into its indiv idual parts, which were different from what the parts had been in reality. Now t hey were fragments of a different thing, a thing all by itself. But the ghost of the canvas underneath, the reminder of it, would always bring you back into the world from which the painting had emerged, many incarnations ago. And of course , he is brought back to the far from being the muse of escape, his talent will b e the siren that draws him irrevocably into the harsh world of war. When Pankrat ov recruits David as part of the movement to replace priceless French-owned pain tings with forgeries before the Germans seize them, the young artist quickly bec omes absorbed by the very idea of forgery, by the necessity to adopt another ide ntity, to live and breathe and be the master he copies. But when their lives dep end on a final forgery--one so audacious that it will strike to the core of Hitl er's own artistic obsessions--philosophy gives way to breathless suspense, as th e pair journey through Normandy at the moment of the Allied invasion, desperatel y searching for a treasured Vermeer. The novel is so strong that its occasional. Artikel-Nr. 2089v

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