Bibliograph

Letters to Camondo, Edmund de Waal

Type

Label

Letters to Camondo, Edmund de Waal

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Letters to Camondo

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1198217999

Responsibility statement

Edmund de Waal

Summary

"Tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moise de Camondo"--, Provided by publisherThe Camondos were a Jewish family from Constantinople who made their home in Paris in the 1870s and became philanthropists, art collectors, and fixtures of Belle Époque high society. They were also targets of antisemitism, much like de Waal's relations, the Ephrussi family, to whom they were connected. Eventually, the Camondos were murdered by the Nazis. After de Waal, a ceramic artist, was invited to make an exhibition in the Camondo house, he began to write letters to Moise de Camondo. These fifty letters are deeply personal reflections on assimilation, melancholy, family, art, the vicissitudes of history, and the value of memory. -- adapted from Amazon info

Target audience

adult

Classification