{"product_id":"108216","title":"Lonely Caravaggio ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/3jX2trg1MJ8KBYZhSX6MHnQQv6U4nP.png?v=1765107285\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e Lonely Caravaggio \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"border-bottom:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-color:;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable align=\"center\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003ctbody style=\"border:0px\"\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd align=\"center\" style=\"line-height:1.2em;text-align:center;font-size:18px;color:black;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px;\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/goods\/147039191\/XL\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;{split_style6}padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e Description \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e  \u003cdiv\u003eIf the first person you fell in love with was a woman in a painting, where would those feelings flow?\u003cbr\u003e 《The Lonely Caravaggio》 is a unique prose piece that shows how the image of art can shake up a person's life and how that shaking is revived in sentences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e French writer Yannick Haenel was deeply captivated by the image of a woman in a Caravaggio painting he happened to see in a library when he was a high school student. He lived with that image for over 30 years and built a world around it.\u003cbr\u003e Rather than a biography of an artist or a commentary on a painting, this book is a literary exploration of how a passionate desire born from a single image connects to writing and a way of life.\u003cbr\u003e Painting and literature, the senses of the body and the impulse of writing come together, and the lonely yet powerful way in which a human being reads the world through art unfolds.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e 01. \u003cbr\u003eFirst Female 011\u003cbr\u003e 02.\u003cbr\u003e Take Action 015\u003cbr\u003e 03.\u003cbr\u003e Consciousness 018\u003cbr\u003e 04.\u003cbr\u003e Secret Life 022\u003cbr\u003e 05.\u003cbr\u003e Erotic Destiny 027\u003cbr\u003e 06.\u003cbr\u003e Silence of Drawn Figures 031\u003cbr\u003e 07.\u003cbr\u003e Beheading 034\u003cbr\u003e 08.\u003cbr\u003e Judith 039\u003cbr\u003e 09.\u003cbr\u003e Revelation 043\u003cbr\u003e 10.\u003cbr\u003e All About Caravaggio 049\u003cbr\u003e 11.\u003cbr\u003e Finding Pearls 053\u003cbr\u003e 12.\u003cbr\u003e Meadow of Love 058\u003cbr\u003e 13.\u003cbr\u003e San Luigi dei Francesi 064\u003cbr\u003e 14.\u003cbr\u003e Arms of Christ 068\u003cbr\u003e 15.\u003cbr\u003e Who is this calling for? 073\u003cbr\u003e 16.\u003cbr\u003e A Fiery Leap Inward 078\u003cbr\u003e 17.\u003cbr\u003e The Life of Caravaggio 082\u003cbr\u003e 18.\u003cbr\u003e Point of Solitude 088\u003cbr\u003e 19.\u003cbr\u003e Castrated Eye 094\u003cbr\u003e 20.\u003cbr\u003e Father's Death 099\u003cbr\u003e 21.\u003cbr\u003e Plague 104\u003cbr\u003e 22.\u003cbr\u003e Miracle Spring 110\u003cbr\u003e 23.\u003cbr\u003e Learn to Draw 119\u003cbr\u003e 24.\u003cbr\u003e Arriving in Rome (1) 126\u003cbr\u003e 25.\u003cbr\u003e Arriving in Rome (2) 134\u003cbr\u003e 26.\u003cbr\u003e Peel the pear 144\u003cbr\u003e 27.\u003cbr\u003e Here are some fruits 149\u003cbr\u003e 28.\u003cbr\u003e Subversion and Disarray 157\u003cbr\u003e 29.\u003cbr\u003e Fuck you 164\u003cbr\u003e 30.\u003cbr\u003e Basket 170\u003cbr\u003e 31.\u003cbr\u003e Mystery 180\u003cbr\u003e 32.\u003cbr\u003e 191 at Del Monte's House\u003cbr\u003e 33.\u003cbr\u003e Mystery of Unhappiness 197\u003cbr\u003e 34.\u003cbr\u003e Buttocks and Feet 208\u003cbr\u003e 35.\u003cbr\u003e Butt and Butt 217\u003cbr\u003e 36.\u003cbr\u003e Red Eyes 223\u003cbr\u003e 37.\u003cbr\u003e Wisdom Will Not Come 229\u003cbr\u003e 38.\u003cbr\u003e Caravaggio's Saint Francis 235\u003cbr\u003e 39. \u003cbr\u003eQuarrel with Baglione 244\u003cbr\u003e 40.\u003cbr\u003e Cézanne and Caravaggio 253\u003cbr\u003e 41.\u003cbr\u003e Saint Catherine of Alexandria 258\u003cbr\u003e 42.\u003cbr\u003e Judith and the Others 272\u003cbr\u003e 43.\u003cbr\u003e Black Butterfly 278\u003cbr\u003e 44.\u003cbr\u003e Doomsday 287\u003cbr\u003e 45.\u003cbr\u003e After the crime 293\u003cbr\u003e 46.\u003cbr\u003e Executioners 301\u003cbr\u003e 47.\u003cbr\u003e Malta 310\u003cbr\u003e 48.\u003cbr\u003e Escape 318\u003cbr\u003e 49.\u003cbr\u003e Sicily! 323\u003cbr\u003e 50.\u003cbr\u003e Approaching Christ 330\u003cbr\u003e 51.\u003cbr\u003e The Last Secret 339\u003cbr\u003e 52.\u003cbr\u003e Return 347\u003cbr\u003e 53.\u003cbr\u003e Caravaggio's name 356\u003cbr\u003e 54.\u003cbr\u003e 363 According to the truth\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eDetailed image\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/momo\/TopCate5343\/MidCate007\/534262871(1).jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Detailed Image 1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e I don't think the silence of the painting interrupts my speech.\u003cbr\u003e Rather, the world contained in that silence became so familiar that from then on, I began to express myself internally as if I were in that world.\u003cbr\u003e The figures that bring the painting to life possess a subtlety that is lost in everyday language.\u003cbr\u003e The purpose of this book is to reconnect with this subtle voice.\u003cbr\u003e It's about rediscovering words that match the burning puzzle that fills the picture.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e--- p.32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Caravaggio was perhaps the first painter to take nihilism seriously, the first to not escape into the illusion that painting was merely a vain pursuit.\u003cbr\u003e --- p.106\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e How can we approach our own experience without exposing ourselves to nothingness? Failure is sometimes beneficial.\u003cbr\u003e Because in failure the door to acceptance opens.\u003cbr\u003e Paul regains his sight when he experiences failure, that is, when he falls.\u003cbr\u003e Glare suggests obstacles, imbalances, and mistakes in reality.\u003cbr\u003e We stumble like Proust, we stumble like Montaigne or Rousseau.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.223\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Caravaggio is also a king.\u003cbr\u003e And he loves nothing more than dipping his crown in a ditch.\u003cbr\u003e Not because he wants to be dirty, but because his truth lies not only in the gold of his paintings, but also in the mud of the night.\u003cbr\u003e The light and shade method was never the position he chose. \u003cbr\u003eWhat he discovered through his paintings, that dangerous middle ground where darkness and light meet, is also the gap through which he slips into his own life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.225\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We hope artists don't push the boundaries, but if they do, what's there to live for? Even among those who believe themselves to be artists, excess sometimes ends up in the ridiculous guise of pretense.\u003cbr\u003e But Caravaggio pursues only one thing: infinite freedom.\u003cbr\u003e A painting is a place where two extremes meet and fill the space between them.\u003cbr\u003e In other words, like literature, painting also contains infinity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I have always thought that a great painter is someone who reaches that moment in life when words and things have worn out and can express nothing but transparency, when there is an empty light, a nest of extinguished flames, a little wall without color.\u003cbr\u003e Here, something that is not clearly visible replaces the gaze. \u003cbr\u003eSeeing is through different eyes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.285\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e No one can say whether he was reconciled to the divine, or whether he loved the divine and devoted all his powers to it, or whether he turned away from it in endless debauchery.\u003cbr\u003e Does sin permeate everything, or does it stop at the door of art? Caravaggio went so far into his own darkness that it may not have been the same person who discovered the pure realm through his art.\u003cbr\u003e But there must be grace.\u003cbr\u003e Otherwise, what on earth would a painting be?\u003cbr\u003e --- p.343\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The background of Caravaggio's painting suddenly takes on an unexpected meaning.\u003cbr\u003e In his paintings we mainly see violence that blocks out reality, but what ultimately surprises us is the fact that black is the color of God.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.345\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I hope this book never ends. \u003cbr\u003eI want to continue living with Caravaggio.\u003cbr\u003e As I have done for a year, I want to spend all day carrying around a professional book, looking at the paintings over and over again, and thinking deeply about the details of the paintings.\u003cbr\u003e I want to open my heart to those figures who seem to have been entrusted to me, as if Judith had taken off her earring and placed it carefully in the palm of my hand.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.363\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Art is not something to be looked at, but something to be lived.”\u003cbr\u003e A literary exploration combining autobiographical reflection and art criticism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e To talk about the painter Caravaggio is to encounter the unknown.\u003cbr\u003e These artists and their works were largely forgotten for many years until they were rediscovered by art historian Roberto Longhi in the mid-20th century.\u003cbr\u003e Caravaggio, who suddenly appeared from a tomb in history, was a figure surrounded by legend. \u003cbr\u003eAlthough already considered an eccentric in his own time in the 16th century, and his fiery temperament and rebellious nature ultimately led him to commit murder and an unhappy end in persecution, Caravaggio was a passionate painter.\u003cbr\u003e The 60 or so pieces of his work that remain today attest to this fact.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Yannick Haenel, a novelist and author of Blue Bacon, tells the story of Caravaggio's work and life in his own way in this book, The Lonely Caravaggio.\u003cbr\u003e Enel looks at [Judith Beheading Holofernes], [The Calling of Saint Matthew], [The Sick Bacchus], and [The Beheading of John the Baptist], which shook his life, with an incomparable gaze, and explores the meaning of inner human desire, pain, beauty, and salvation through his paintings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe image that captivated life, the beginning of that desire\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn the closed and disciplined space of a military high school, a teenage boy accidentally encounters a painting in the library.\u003cbr\u003e A close-up image of a woman standing against a black velvet curtain.\u003cbr\u003e From that moment on, the woman's face, the pearls and butterfly ribbon hanging from her ears, the line of her shoulders and her eyes are no longer just a painting.\u003cbr\u003e The image acts like a life-splitting blade, completely capturing the boy's eyes, hands, mind, and desires.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The obsession with the women in the painting is not simply eroticism.\u003cbr\u003e It functions as a rite of passage that marks the change in the way humans perceive the world, before and after.\u003cbr\u003e By emphasizing the senses that precede language and the images that precede concepts, this book revives the power of the 'first image' that we had forgotten. \u003cbr\u003eEnel slowly draws the reader into that moment when life suddenly becomes clear, that very moment when we begin to love something.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What the author focuses on is not the aesthetics of the painting, but how the painting leaves a trace on the human mind.\u003cbr\u003e The black butterfly and pearls on Judith's earrings are not just decorations, but also symbols of desire and the secrets of life, demanding intense immersion from the reader.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA confession that painting rewrote my life\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 《The Solitary Caravaggio》 is not a biography or commentary on Caravaggio.\u003cbr\u003e What this book focuses on is the narrative of how a single image, a single painting, can transform a person's senses, and how that sense can rewrite an entire life.\u003cbr\u003e The journey culminates 15 years later, when he is finally reunited with the painting in a museum in Rome.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eEnel, confronted with the shocking truth of the work [Judith Beheading Holofernes], experiences a true revelation.\u003cbr\u003e The figure I once believed to be love was 'Judith' in that work, and only then did the entire composition become apparent, and in the painting, she was decapitating a man.\u003cbr\u003e In front of that scene where intense beauty is mixed with violence, Enel realizes for the first time what the object of his love was.\u003cbr\u003e How cruel and contradictory that desire was, how blindly it was a long-term projection.\u003cbr\u003e But this discovery does not end in despair or betrayal, and from that moment on, Enel begins to put this intense awareness into words.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The artist increasingly immerses himself in the details of the image, reflecting and reconstructing his entire being in this painting, not just at the level of art appreciation.\u003cbr\u003e And finally he says: \u003cbr\u003eThe sentence, \"The painting is not what I saw, but what saw me.\" is not a smooth reproduction of this experience, but a fierce attempt to restore the violence and silence, the light and loneliness of the painting in language.\u003cbr\u003e \"The Solitary Caravaggio\" is a rare record of how one artist brought art to life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eWhat happens at the intersection of literature and art\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What makes this book special is its persistent exploration of how art and literature mediate and replace each other.\u003cbr\u003e Yannick Haenel revisits the origins of literature through Caravaggio's paintings.\u003cbr\u003e He says.\u003cbr\u003e 'To think of a woman is to write.' It's not just about singing about the object of love, but it depicts how images evoke language, and how that language, in turn, changes the contours of reality. \u003cbr\u003eAt this point, literature becomes not a means of describing reality, but a form of sensation that constitutes reality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Caravaggio's light, the trembling of flesh in his paintings, the leaping movements of hands in silence? All these are translated into language and constitute a new reality.\u003cbr\u003e And in this process, we come to realize that art is not simply a legacy of the past, but a transformation of the senses that evokes life here and now.\u003cbr\u003e 《The Lonely Caravaggio》 is an internalized record of that artistic experience.\u003cbr\u003e This book is made up of sentences that were created while following the emotions that could not be expressed in those moments when I was alone and overwhelmed by something.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book, which crosses the boundaries between 'art' and 'literature,' asks what we truly love and why we write through the character of Caravaggio. \u003cbr\u003eIf you ever felt like a face in a painting was staring at you for a long time, this book will bring back that memory.\u003cbr\u003e In that sense, “The Lonely Caravaggio” is a confession dedicated to all readers who want to transform art into the language of life. \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e GOODS SPECIFICS \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eDate of issue:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 23, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003ePage count, weight, size:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368 pages | 354g | 119*188*19mm\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9791161111483\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1161111484 \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/center\u003e","brand":"LIBRAIRIE COREENNE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43894761455658,"sku":"108216","price":28.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0683\/2750\/5962\/files\/bc69e8b251e78d2ceb3468560a634318.jpg?v=1765445141","url":"https:\/\/librairie.coreenne.fr\/en\/products\/108216","provider":"LIBRAIRIE COREENNE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}