Schneck: "The first thing I will do is go to the Louvre"

Colombe Schneck is a novelist. Last book published: Brooklyn Summer Nights (Stock).

I can read, but I can't watch the painting. During the February holidays, I was in Amsterdam with my daughter. She and her brother, thanks to their father, visited all the museums in Europe. I don't know how to visit museums, museums annoy me, I prefer markets, streets, cafes. I do not tell my daughter and I accompany her to the Rijskmuseum.

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As usual, I pretend to stop in front of the paintings, and because I can't look, I'm bored. There is a painting by Vermeer, the only thing I know about Vermeer is thanks to Proust. The small section of yellow wall. I was like Bergotte looking at the View of Delft . For a moment, he said to himself how fictitious these paintings are, nothing beats the view of a house by the sea, then he sees the colors, pink, blue, this yellow. And something lights up. In my turn, I was disturbed by a painting by Vermeer, a young

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