- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: Scribner (4 May 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0684851318
- ISBN-13: 978-0684851310
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,558,417 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A novel exploring the psycho-sexual compulsion of an artist obsessed by war. It tells the story of Charles Monk who only feels truly alive during wartime, finding in it an eroticism which he tries to recapture on canvas. The author is the editor of the on-line magazine THE RICHMOND REVIEW.
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Format:Paperback
I wanted to buy this book, then changed my mind because it seemed so pretenscious. I ended up buying it a month later and finished it in a couple of days. What frightened me most was that the title seemed to offer more than the contents but half way in I realised that it was a gritty book written in the only way that it could be. Telling the story of a man who is at heart a sentamentalist, but on the outside a glutinous , somewhat obsessive pig. The language is simple and pristine - ugly when necessary, beautifull when describing the language of the human condition. It is a novel written from both head and heart - a rarity in these days of excess and self immolation.
Format:Paperback
This is a book which gives you hope for the future of literature in England - an original, brilliantly written and very passionate piece of writing from an author we'll surely hear a lot about in the future. Charles Monk is the war artist of the title, a larger than life figure whose loves are as unconstrained and uninhibited as his life, but whose life is empty since the death of the woman he loved. Retired to London he has the demons of his past still to face and, true to life, redemption comes in the most obscure way. This isn't a book for everyone. At times it's elitist in tone and you need to have lived a bit to appreciate its emotional power. But for anyone with an interest in serious, ideas-led literary fiction The War Artist is a must-read. Highly recommended.
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Playing with myths of blindness as he examines the relationship between artist and art critic, "Richmond Review" editor Steven Kelly tells the story of Charles Monk, a war artist tortured by unrequited love for his best friend's wife. Monk has made a career out of trying to disengage aesthetics from moral sensibility as he struggles to come to artistic terms with his own eroticised obsession with suffering and death. This self-conscious and self-regarding novel never really suceeds in freeing its characters from the framework of myth through which its author appears to be keeping track of them and the women, especially, seem no more than beautiful and enigmatic ciphers. Despite all its intellectual cleverness and visceral horrors, the book ultimately fails to engage the reader's emotions.
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