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Rembrandt´s Whore
Sylvie Matton
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Description for Rembrandt´s Whore
Paperback.
A sensitive innocent, Hendrickje Stoffels escapes the harsh realities of her garrison home-town to take up a servant's role in Rembrandt's household. She soon becomes his lover and closest confidante, and plays witness to the highs and lows of the great artist's life. But Hendrickje is fated to discover the hypocrisy and greed of society in Amsterdam's Golden Age.
In sensuous prose, Matton paints a powerful fictional portrait of this impassioned relationship through the eyes of a remarkable woman.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781786898678
SKU
9781786898678
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99-1
About Sylvie Matton
Sylvie Matton is the author of three novels and four works of non-fiction. She has been an actress and screenwriter. With her husband, the artist and film-maker Charles Matton, she worked for two years on a feature-length film on the life of Rembrandt, which was premiered in Britain in 2001. She lives in France. Tamsin Black is a freelance translator and lives in Switzerland. She studied French literature in London and Paris, where she was awarded various prizes and scholarships. Rembrandt's Whore was her first translation of a work of fiction.
Reviews for Rembrandt´s Whore
Using rich historical detail, Matton charts [Rembrandt's] ostracism from the Church and wealthy Amsterdam society, and reveals the tender, domestic side of the great master's life
The Times
Rembrandt's Whore is written in small, pithy passages, each one a sketch depicting a mood or a moment, and is rich in historical detail . . . It is translated from the French, yet somehow the awkwardness of the language only adds to the tenderness of Stoffels' naivety and her wonder at the joys of life
Guardian
Matton deserves some reflected glory for this lyrical but well-researched "memoir" . . . She convincingly recreates the girl who moved from maid to muse and mother, shocking puritanical Amsterdam and inspiring some of the tenderest depictions of solid flesh and soaring spirit in art
Independent
A work of unobtrusive beauty, unforgettably true and poignant
Le Figaro
Matton digs deep into Stoffels' psyche . . . her writing is as beautiful, honest and emotional as the portraits of her subject which, of course, is just the way it should be
Big Issue
Matton's novel has been assiduously researched, and she memorably evokes the cruelties and hardships of everyday life 300 years ago
Mail on Sunday
A precious alloy of human interest, detailed historical research and inspired sensitivity to Rembrandt's work . . . the writing is as careful and subtle as the master's paintings
Magazine Litteraire, France
A fascinating, illuminating look at the pressures [Rembrandt] faced in the later stages of his life . . . a noteworthy book
Publishers Weekly
Matton has created a work of incredible beauty, juxtaposing the darkness of a society riddled with Black Death with the passion shared by the painter and his muse
Bizarre
The Times
Rembrandt's Whore is written in small, pithy passages, each one a sketch depicting a mood or a moment, and is rich in historical detail . . . It is translated from the French, yet somehow the awkwardness of the language only adds to the tenderness of Stoffels' naivety and her wonder at the joys of life
Guardian
Matton deserves some reflected glory for this lyrical but well-researched "memoir" . . . She convincingly recreates the girl who moved from maid to muse and mother, shocking puritanical Amsterdam and inspiring some of the tenderest depictions of solid flesh and soaring spirit in art
Independent
A work of unobtrusive beauty, unforgettably true and poignant
Le Figaro
Matton digs deep into Stoffels' psyche . . . her writing is as beautiful, honest and emotional as the portraits of her subject which, of course, is just the way it should be
Big Issue
Matton's novel has been assiduously researched, and she memorably evokes the cruelties and hardships of everyday life 300 years ago
Mail on Sunday
A precious alloy of human interest, detailed historical research and inspired sensitivity to Rembrandt's work . . . the writing is as careful and subtle as the master's paintings
Magazine Litteraire, France
A fascinating, illuminating look at the pressures [Rembrandt] faced in the later stages of his life . . . a noteworthy book
Publishers Weekly
Matton has created a work of incredible beauty, juxtaposing the darkness of a society riddled with Black Death with the passion shared by the painter and his muse
Bizarre