The Uncannily Strange and Brief Life of Amedeo Modigliani

In a series of expressionist vignettes, Velibor Čolić's The Uncannily Strange and Brief Life of Amedeo Modigliani paints a compelling portrait of a chaotic and tragically brief career, cut short by drugs and disease.

Consisting of a series of vignettes, set mostly in the painter's studio and peopled by his wife Jeanne Hébuterne (who threw herself from an apartment-building the day after Modigliani's death), the prostitutes who were his occasional models and several Bohemian visitors, the novel spans the last months of... Next