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Thomas Schlesser, author of the best-seller “Mona’s Eyes”: “Art helps to open up our perception of the world”

2024-02-05T11:11:11.285Z

Highlights: Thomas Schlesser, author of the best-seller “Mona’s Eyes”: “Art helps to open up our perception of the world”. In “The Eyes of Mona,” his first work, art history professor and writer Thomas Sch Lesser tells us about his inspiration. “In fifty-two weeks, 10-year-old Mona will have lost her sight. So, his grandfather decides to take him, every Wednesday, to a Parisian museum (the Louvre, Orsay and the Center Pompidou)”


THE PARISIAN WEEKEND. In “The Eyes of Mona,” his first work, art history professor and writer Thomas Schlesser tells us


In fifty-two weeks, 10-year-old Mona will have lost her sight.

So, his grandfather decides to take him, every Wednesday, to a Parisian museum (the Louvre, Orsay and the Center Pompidou) to show him a work.

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Together, they marvel and wonder at what is most beautiful on earth.

Thomas Schlesser, professor of art history at Polytechnique and director of the Hartung-Bergman foundation, looks back on the genesis of the success of “Eyes of Mona”, his first novel

(Albin Michel, 496 pages, 22.90 euros)

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