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On their break-up, Schiele also went on to paint Death and the Maiden, a hauntingly beautiful oil painting that captures their shared distress at their separation. Still, Schiele married the nice girl who lived across the street. But days before the wedding, he made a bizarre proposal of his own to the woman who’d stood by his side: in one of Vienna’s famed coffee shops, where sachertorte could be enjoyed while people’s discussed Freud’s ground-breaking theories, Schiele presented Vally with a contract that promised them two weeks together each summer – his way for things to carry on as they had been.
The Flames: A Novel by Sophie Haydock, Hardcover | Barnes The Flames: A Novel by Sophie Haydock, Hardcover | Barnes
MyHome.ie (Opens in new window) • Top 1000 • The Gloss (Opens in new window) • Recruit Ireland (Opens in new window) • Irish Times Training (Opens in new window) Set in the extravagant, Bohemian art world of early 20th century Vienna, the electrifying untold story of the four women who posed for and inspired the groundbreaking erotic art of controversial painter Egon Schiele
The novel is well-researched . . . and the author has an impressive knowledge of Schiele, his works and his milieu, both artistic and historical. It is an engaging read . . . a most impressive work of historical fiction.” Edith and Adele are sisters, the daughters of a wealthy bourgeois industrialist. They are expected to follow the rules, to marry well, and produce children. Gertrude is in thrall to her flamboyant older brother. Marked by a traumatic childhood, she envies the freedom he so readily commands. Vally was born into poverty but is making her way in the world as a model for the eminent artist Gustav Klimt. The Flames paints a history so detailed and vivid that we feel we were there in the flesh. A book to get lost in, a great feat of a debut."— DBC Pierre, author of the Booker Prize–winning novel Vernon God Little From the Publisher Vienna at the dawn of the 20th century is an opulent, extravagant city teeming with art, music, and radical ideas. A place where the social elite attend glamorous balls in the city’s palaces while young intellectuals decry the empire across the tables of crowded cafés. It is a city where anything seems possible—if you are a man. Passionate about short stories, Sophie also works for the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award and is associate director of the Word Factory literary organisation.
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She declined – and I enjoyed imagining precisely the words she used to express her dismay and sense of betrayal during that pivotal scene, in The Flames – and never saw him again. This was during the first World War, and Vally left Vienna not long after, to become a military nurse with the Red Cross, stationed in Dalmatia. She died of scarlet fever soon after, and was buried in an unmarked grave. Happily, in 2018, it was restored to give this dynamic and determined young woman a headstone and the recognition she deserved. If it was the author's intent to bring this women to the fore to show how they influenced a debauched, narcissistic and misogynistic philanderer, then this really does not do it. All the women come off as similar - love becomes obsession before being callously discarded and abandoned for another woman. I felt no connection with any of them as they appear very one dimensional, and Ego Schielle himself I found repulsive in his depraved pursuit of very young women (girls even).The Flames paints a history so detailed and vivid that we feel we were there in the flesh. A book to get lost in, a great feat of a debut." author of the Booker Prize–winning novel Ver DBC Pierre blogtour Adventure Ancient Egypt Art History Australia Book Blogger Bookliterati Book Recommendation Book review Christmas Contemporary Fiction Crime Del Rey Doubleday Emmeline Kirby and Gregory Longdon Mystery Fantasy Festive Reads Florence Folklore Harper Collins Historical Fiction History Independently Published Italy Karen Swan Literary Fiction Magic Mantle Books Melville House Murder Mystery Myth Orenda Books Pan Macmillan Penguin Random House Psychological thriller Romance Secrets Simon and Schuster Supernatural Suspense thriller Venice Women's Fiction Zaffre Books Book title Search for: Search Search Recent Comments
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