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3 months agoFrench novel explores art as seen through the eyes of a young girl
There is something quite addictive about Thomas Schlesser's Mona's Eyes ( Les yeux de Mona in French). Once you start reading it, you cannot stop, even though nothing much happens over the course of its 300 pages, and the 52 chapters all follow the same pattern. Written in the vein of Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World (1991), a fictional survey of Western philosophy as seen through the eyes of a 14-year-old girl, Schlesser's novel, a bestseller in Europe, offers a similarly compact, often exhilarating cruise through the last few centuries of Western art.