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  • Book: Portrait of a Man
  • Location: Paris, Switzerland
  • Author: Georges Perec

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It is quite a simple story told in a quite complex manner. The key character is Gaspard Winkler who falls in with a painter called Jérôme in Geneva where he had been sent to school during the War. Jérôme is also a master forger who trains him in the art, and Gaspard then works with a gang of international criminals for 12 years. He is an excellent and meticulous craftsman who really studies the works of the artists who work he is copying – including sending days in museums and galleries, and on basic research. I enjoyed the read as it is an interesting notion.

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