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Edgardo Franzosini
Author of The Animal Gazer
Works by Edgardo Franzosini
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- Birthdate
- 1952-08-14
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Italia
- Birthplace
- Rovagnate, LC, Italia
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- Works
- 9
- Members
- 54
- Popularity
- #299,230
- Rating
- 3.0
- Reviews
- 2
- ISBNs
- 15
- Languages
- 3
But... this story is told in an entirely dispassionate voice. It sometimes reads like a biography, with stilted chunks of explanatory prose filling in background incidents. There are a handful of photographs of his sculptures (the hippo is brilliant!) scattered throughout - they now sell for millions. This story should have had me weeping. But it is so sparse, so dry, so terse... perhaps intended to reflect Bugatti's own depression? I wanted to love this, but it was just too prickly. Poor Rembrandt. May he rest in peace, and his beautiful animals prowl forever.… (more)