A dynamic and far-reaching dialogue with one of Europe's most influential contemporary artists about his vision of unifying art and everyday life. In 2013, at the age of eighty, Michelangelo Pistoletto was the subject of a six-month exhibitio...
[Alain] erects the scaffolding of a thorough examination of collector's envy -- Nora Mahony Times Literary Supplement Envy is a novel - or novella (125 airy pages, admirably translated from the Italian by Alastair McEwen and handsomely produced by the Pushkin Press) - about the possibility of a novel that remains unwritten, which is about as postmodern as it gets. It's all a tease - of the painter and his lawyers, of the reader, and of the author himself... elegant, witty and provocative -- Lewis Jones New Statesman
Alain Elkann was born in New York in 1950. He is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines such as La Stampa, Lo Specchio, Nuovi argomenti, and Panta. A prize-winning novelist, essayist, and journalist, he has published over twenty books with Bompiani.