Title: The Painter's Studio - Patrick Grainville - book
Summary :
The narrator left Europe, his old blood, his old images, and settled in Los Angeles, where "the memory of men is absent"; he became a painter there. His studio welcomes young delinquents: learning art "brings together their mutilated selves." Ruth, powerful and rebellious, Hu, the lover, Horace, all "storm and retention," Temple, coherent and academic, are among the painter's favorite students. The Studio takes them into passionate struggles and, above all, exasperates the obsession of a beauty to be achieved. This initiation novel is that of a desired filiation, disputed in violence and bewitchment.
