climbed her way back to What followed was an almost academic success, ultimately overwhelming journey of being accepted to study reintegration, a culture shock journalism at Berkley so severe that in her teens University and finding herself Flor attempted to take her in a life of scholarship, own life. Clinging to the hope writing, and teaching. she found in literature, she World English rights: Turner Publishing. Audio rights: Audible Film rights: Regal Hoffmann ERIC KARPELES has worked was a of the year” for ERIC KARPELES “book as a painter for over thirty The New York Times, The studying at Haverford Times of London and The Wall College, Oxford University, Street Journal. He has and The New School/Parsons. delivered lectures at New York He has taught studio painting University, the University of at the Parsons School of California, Berkeley; The Design in New York and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Montclair College in New the University of Texas, Jersey, and is a Senior Fellow Austin; and The Center for at the Miłosz Institute at the Fiction in New York City, on Claremont Colleges. His book literary subjects from PAINTINGS IN PROUST Elizabeth Bishop to Marcel (Thames & Hudson, 2008), Proust, to Emily Dickinson. ALMOST NOTHING The 20th Century Art and Life – of Józef Czapski (New York Review Books, Fall 2018) ALMOST NOTHING: THE decades and wrote a 20TH CENTURY LIFE AND celebrated book on Proust – ART OF JÓZEF CZAPSKIis an and ALMOST NOTHING makes exploration of the remarkable a convincing and elegant case life and extraordinary times of for extending this reverence Józef Czapski, a Polish beyond those two countries. intellectual, writer, and painter who, born into the In this rich examination of aristocracy in the late 19th Czapski’s life, Karpeles century, came to live through beautifully situates his subject the entire long 20th century in his historical context; the of revolutions and World result is a book that by Wars. He is revered in his tracing the life of one home country and also in fascinating individual also France he lived there for illuminates the larger –
What followed was an almost overwhelming journey of reintegration, a culture shock so severe that in her teens Flor attempted to take her own life. Clinging to the hope she found in literature, she climbed her way back to academic success, ultimately being accepted to study journalism at Berkley University and finding herself in a life of scholarship, writing, and teaching. World English rights: Turner Publishing. Audio rights: Audible Film rights: Regal Hoffmann ERIC KARPELES ERIC KARPELES has worked as a painter for over thirty studying at Haverford College, Oxford University, and The New School/Parsons. He has taught studio painting at the Parsons School of Design in New York and Montclair College in New Jersey, and is a Senior Fellow at the Miłosz Institute at the Claremont Colleges. His book PAINTINGS IN PROUST (Thames & Hudson, 2008), was a “book of the year” for The New York Times, The Times of London and The Wall Street Journal. He has delivered lectures at New York University, the University of California, Berkeley; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the University of Texas, Austin; and The Center for Fiction in New York City, on literary subjects from Elizabeth Bishop to Marcel Proust, to Emily Dickinson. ALMOST NOTHING – The 20th Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski (New York Review Books, Fall 2018) ALMOST NOTHING: THE 20TH CENTURY LIFE AND ART OF JÓZEF CZAPSKIis an exploration of the remarkable life and extraordinary times of Józef Czapski, a Polish intellectual, writer, and painter who, born into the aristocracy in the late 19th century, came to live through the entire long 20th century of revolutions and World Wars. He is revered in his home country and also in France – he lived there for decades and wrote a celebrated book on Proust – and ALMOST NOTHING makes a convincing and elegant case for extending this reverence beyond those two countries. In this rich examination of Czapski’s life, Karpeles beautifully situates his subject in his historical context; the result is a book that by tracing the life of one fascinating individual also illuminates the larger
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