Duveen by S.N. Behrman

Author:S.N. Behrman [S. N. Behrman]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781907970580
Publisher: Daunt Books
Published: 2014-03-11T04:00:00+00:00

The chance he refers to was the chance to prepare his first major work, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, a formidable project on which he laboured for ten years. He considers that allowing himself to be ‘seduced’ into doing it was the greatest error of his life, because the publication of this classic turned him into ‘that equivocal thing’, an ‘expert’ on art. The frustration of a writer manqué is evidenced on almost every page of Sketch for a Self-Portrait. He was eighty when he wrote this book, and thought he had ‘nearly emancipated myself from the future and entirely from the past’, but he was still disturbed by one thing:

One habit I have not yet succeeded in getting rid of: the inveterate one of feeling that when at home I must sit at my desk for so long each day to write, not letters whether of business or of friendship, but printable stuff, even when there is no idea of publishing connected with it. If I have failed to do it, I feel morally hang-doggy and physically unclean.

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