Marina Picasso Knihy

Můj dědeček je příběh o Picassovi, největším géniovi 20. století, který vypráví jeho vnučka Marina, když vzpomíná na své dětství. Malíř umřel v roce 1973, kdy jí bylo dvacet dva let. Mlčela celých 30 roků. Tato léta potřebovala k tomu, aby dokázala promluvit o svém utrpení, aby se zbavila nekonečného pocitu studu a zahladila jizvu na duši. Marina Picasso nám odhaluje své pocity tím nejintimnějším způsobem. Pocity, které jsou až za bolestí, pocity, ze kterých dnes čerpá svoji svobodu. Touto svobodou jsou její děti a ti z okraje společnosti. Autorka napsala knihu ve spolupráci s Louisem Valentinem.

This is a memoir of living in the shadow of the man whose family members were forced to call him "The Sun" -- the twentieth century's most famous painter who, in becoming so, dominated the lives of his wives, his children and his grandchildren -- as told by Marina Picasso, the granddaughter of Pablo Picasso and his first wife, Olga Khokhlova, a former Russian ballerina who remained married to him until her death. While writers, artists and film stars were allowed into Picasso's orbit, he kept his family outside of it, not only in impoverished conditions but in terror of provoking his displeasure -- unable to carve lives and identities of their own. After years of being disdained by Picasso, first Marina's brother committed suicide and then Marina's father drank himself to death. Marina's own estrangement and subsequent breakdown followed, until at last, through grief and awakening, she came to terms with the blessings and curses of the Picasso legacy -- the result of which is in part this disturbing account of Pablo Picasso's private family life.

Het familieleven van de Spaans/Franse kunstenaar Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), beschreven door een van zijn kleindochters.