• Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal review – Proustian evocation of the belle époque

    Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal review – Proustian evocation of the belle époque
    The potter and memoirist’s exacting study of a Parisian family’s collection of art objects is an exquisite coda to The Hare With Amber EyesEdmund de Waal, the master potter and memoirist, subscribes to the famous imagist dictum: “no ideas but in things”. This book is an exquisite and profound coda to The Hare With Amber Eyes, his bestselling personal history of a branch of his maternal family, the Ephrussi banking dynasty, told through the few surviving treasures –

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