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Headlong (BBC Radio 4) Cassette
Dutch art has become fashionable with 90s novelists. Witness Deborah Moggach's Tulip Fever, set in 1630s' Amsterdam where a painted portrait is the focus for a tale of doomed love. Or Tracy Chevalier's Girl With a Pearl Earring, which centres on Vermeer's prosperous household in Delft in the 1660s. Michael Frayn has joined the Flemish fray in Headlong, where a Bruegel has a starring role. With these paintings the author can step into a story rather than a myth. Big religious representations and gaudy weight of literature behind them. But an enigmatic portrait, a picture of a dimly lit interior or frolicking peasants is a tale waiting to be told. They're an invitation to interpretation and Frayn's narrator accepts this role with alacrity. Youngish art historian Martin Clay (a Hugh Grant … read more...
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