{"title":"Richard Davenport-Hines","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"uma-noite-no-majestic","title":"A Night at the Majestic","description":"On May 18, 1922, at a Paris hotel, five of the greatest artists of the 20th century sat down to dinner. It would be the only time that James Joyce, Marcel Proust, Pablo Picasso, Serge Diaghilev, and Igor Stravinsky would be together. Each of these exponents of modernism was at the height of their artistic creativity, and Proust in particular was enjoying spectacular success. The dinner was hosted by the English writer Sydney Schiff and his wife Violet, in celebration of the premiere of Stravinsky's ballet Le Renard, staged by the Ballets Russes, Diaghilev's company for which Picasso regularly designed sets. The dinner's greatest achievement, however, was bringing together Marcel Proust and James Joyce, controversial novelists who were generally averse to social events. Richard Davenport-Hines naturally recounts details of this memorable encounter—the artists' impressions of each other, gaffes, anecdotes, moments of tension, verbal spats between artists and artistic types, outbursts of vanity and egocentrism—but in reality he uses it as a pretext to attempt a brief biographical study of the Schiffs' guest of honor, Marcel Proust. Focusing on the last six months of the French novelist's life, when he was immersed in composing and revising the final volumes of his masterpiece, the seven-novel series In Search of Lost Time, Davenport paints the portrait of a perpetually spoiled, fragile child, left with no alternative but to surrender to seclusion and immerse himself in the emptiness of his soul, finally materializing melancholy in the purest expression of art. A Night at the Majestic evokes the luxury and glamour of 1920s Paris, the intellectual achievements of the Modernist movement, and the intrigues and scandals of the French aristocracy. Above all, it offers a captivating example of an artist's courage and devotion to his work.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159589535996,"sku":"9788501074317","price":74.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/1057693fdab00a9fa19ce31821731676.jpg?v=1778320517"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/richard-davenport-hines.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}