Η σχεδία

In Paris in 1818 a woman who has lived like Robinson Crusoe calls on the young Théodore Géricault in his Montmartre studio. She has a great deal to tell, above all about the wreck of the frigate Méduse, which left France in June 1816 to found a colony in Africa, ran aground off the west coast and caused a political scandal. The horrors endured by the survivors on their raft will give Géricault the painting that makes his name and opens the age of Romanticism. Set in post-Napoleonic France, the novel asks how disaster becomes art and links the Enlightenment with colonialism.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

191 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

France, 1816–1818

First published

2011 by Καστανιώτης

Author's age

61 when first published

ISBN

9789600351361 (original)