2023-08-19 19:33:18
Published on August 19, 2023 at 9:33 p.m. Modified on August 19, 2023 at 9:34 PM.
The 2023 literary season is in full swing. We are devoting a series of articles over the next few weeks to the highlights of this round.
We know since Hhhhh et The Seventh Function of Language how Laurent Binet excels in fiction featuring real characters. His new book, Perspective(s)turns out to live up to our expectations: mischievous and entertaining, this epistolary novel whose action takes place in Florence in 1557 is an authentic pleasure to read.
A nod to the classics and the promise of an abundance of romance, Laurent Binet resorts to the charming and effective artifice of the sheaf of manuscripts found by a certain B. in the shadow of an antique shop in ‘Arezzo. A night of insomnia spent deciphering them makes him realize that an anonymous archivist has, in his time, collected there correspondence which contains unheard-of revelations. They are from the pen of the great artists of the time and their assistants, the fine flower of the nobility, nuns and adventurers, craftsmen and courtiers. They allow nothing less than to shed light on the mysterious death of Jacopo Pontormo.
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