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Index
Cover
About the Author
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Dedication
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1: The White Bird
Rembrandt self-portrait
Self-portrait 1914–18
The white bird
2: Leaving Home
The storyteller
On the edge of a foreign city
The eaters and the eaten
Dürer: a portrait of the artist
One night in Strasbourg
On the banks of the Sava
Four postcard poems
On the Bosphorus
Manhattan
The theatre of indifference
3: Two Dreams
The city of Sodom
The deluge
4: Love’s ABC
Kerchief
Goya: the Maja, dressed and undressed
Bonnard
Modigliani’s alphabet of love
The Hals mystery
5: The Last Pictures
In a Moscow cemetery
Ernst Fischer: a philosopher and death
François, Georges and Amélie: a requiem in three parts
Drawn to that moment
The unsaid
6: The Work of Art
On a Degas bronze of a dancer
The moment of Cubism
The eyes of Claude Monet
The work of art
Painting and time
The place of painting
On visibility
7: The Unmade Road
Redder every day
Mayakovsky: his language and his death [with Anya Bostock]
The secretary of Death
The hour of poetry
The Screen and The Spike
Sicilian lives
Leopardi
The production of the world
Mother tongue
8: The Sixth of August 1945
Hiroshima
Of all the colours
Sources and Acknowledgments
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