{"product_id":"optic-nerve-paperback-1","title":"Optic Nerve - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaria Gainza\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eThomas Bunstead\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In this delightful autofiction―the first book by Gainza, an Argentine art critic, to appear in English―a woman delivers pithy assessments of world-class painters along with glimpses of her life, braiding the two into an illuminating whole.\" ―\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, Notable Book of the Year and Editors' Choice\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe narrator of \u003ci\u003eOptic Nerve\u003c\/i\u003e is an Argentinian woman whose obsession is art. The story of her life is the story of the paintings, and painters, who matter to her. Her intimate, digressive voice guides us through a gallery of moments that have touched her. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these pages, El Greco visits the Sistine Chapel and is appalled by Michelangelo's bodies. The mystery of Rothko's refusal to finish murals for the Seagram Building in New York is blended with the story of a hospital in which a prostitute walks the halls while the narrator's husband receives chemotherapy. Alfred de Dreux visits Géricault's workshop; Gustave Courbet's devilish seascapes incite viewers \"to have sex, or to eat an apple\"; Picasso organizes a cruel banquet in Rousseau's honor . . . All of these fascinating episodes in art history interact with the narrator's life in Buenos Aires―her family and work; her loves and losses; her infatuations and disappointments. The effect is of a character refracted by environment, composed by the canvases she studies. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSeductive and capricious, \u003ci\u003eOptic Nerve\u003c\/i\u003e marks the English-language debut of a major Argentinian writer. It is a book that captures, like no other, the mysterious connections between a work of art and the person who perceives it.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaría Gainza \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Buenos Aires, where she still resides. She has worked as a correspondent for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e in Argentina, as well as for \u003ci\u003eARTnews\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also been a contributor to \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Buenos Aires Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eRadar\u003c\/i\u003e, the cultural supplement from Argentine newspaper \u003ci\u003ePágina\/12\u003c\/i\u003e. She is coeditor of the collection \u003ci\u003eLos Sentidos\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Senses\u003c\/i\u003e) on Argentinean art, and in 2011 she published \u003ci\u003eTextos elegidos\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eSelected Texts\u003c\/i\u003e), a collection of her notes and essays on contemporary art. \u003ci\u003eOptic Nerve\u003c\/i\u003e is her first work of fiction and her first book to be translated into English. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Bunstead\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and translator based in East Sussex, England. He has translated some of the leading Spanish-language writers working today, including Eduardo Halfon, Yuri Herrera, Agustín Fernández Mallo, and Enrique Vila-Matas, and his own writing has appeared in publications such as \u003ci\u003eKill Author\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe White Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e. He is an editor at the translation journal \u003ci\u003eIn Other Words\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 21, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42730244341823,"sku":"9781646220021","price":20.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/d5746c1492c61801e87b31a33e1518e2.webp?v=1765125373","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/optic-nerve-paperback-1","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}