Behind the Gas Lamp
Julian Barnes: Félix Fénéon, 4 October 2007
Novels in Three Lines
by Félix Fénéon, translated by Luc Sante.
NYRB, 171 pp., £7.99, August 2007,978 1 59017 230 8 Show More
by Félix Fénéon, translated by Luc Sante.
NYRB, 171 pp., £7.99, August 2007,
“... time, mellowed his judgment: in 1943 he told his friend and future literary executor, the critic Jean Paulhan, that it was ‘the least successful work painted by Signac’. Worse for Fénéon, it established a template of profilism. Bonnard, Vuillard and Vallotton all depicted him in more or less the same pose: leaning forwards – bent into a near ... ”