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David Brooks


The House of Balthus

The House of Balthus

David Brooks

The House Of Balthus is a magical novel which has the intensity of a dream. Characters from the artist Balthus' paintings walk out of the canvas and take on a life of their own, sharing the spaces of an ancient chateau now turned apartment block in a large French provincial town. The concierge Mme Lecault watches closely her tenants, among them the Countess, the Professor, the Painter, Therese and her young lover Michael - but knows only the surface of their lives. She spends her sleepless nights talking to Mme Berry, who lives, it would appear, in another century.

There is a sound of sobbing, which echoes between rooms and across years; there is desire stretched so taut the page seems to vibrate with it, and the pain of lives where desire is no longer allowed.

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