Title: The Festival in Venice - Philippe Sollers - book
Summary :
What exactly is Pierre Froissart, an underground writer, doing in the summer in a small palace in Venice? Why is he accompanied by this young American physicist, Luz, with whom he seems to get along so well? Illegal activities? Drugs? Art trafficking? But what is the international network that employs him and some of his old friends? And what does this Watteau canvas that he must transport to his secret destination represent? This famous and sought-after painting that gives its name to the novel and gradually draws it, as if of its own accord, into a revelation of History?
