5/30/2023 0 Comments Renoir my fatherThe Author: Of course, History is a subjective genre, after all. The Reader: It is not Renoir you are presenting to us, but your own conception of him. The book could be the most touching tribute by a son to his adored father, but no one reading it believes it is a serious biography any more than one believes Jean Renoir’s brilliant film La Grande Illusion to be a factual, accurate depiction of World War I.Īs Jean Renoir writes at the beginning of Renoir, My Father: Renoir, My Father is a well-loved series of recollections by the sixty-four-year-old movie producer/director/writer who was twenty-five when his seventy-eight-year-old father died in 1919. In “The Art of Pleasure”, Jed Perl praises Jean Renoir’s 1958 Renoir, My Father but denigrates my newly published biography, Renoir: An Intimate Biography. Auguste Renoir: Gabrielle and Jean, 1895–1896
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