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Headlong frayn7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() That may or may not be a long-lost Bruegel. In thisĬase, it is the folly of one impulsive Englishman who allows greed, snobbery and intellectual hubris to lead him astray and to risk his marriage, his family's savings and his good name - all for the sake of a painting In his antic new novel, "Headlong," the British playwright Michael Frayn has constructed an ingenious plot around a missing Bruegel painting, and in doing so, created his own resonant portrait of human folly. ![]() Some of his biographers suggest that he belonged to anĪntwerp circle of humanists who believed that man is driven to sin by his own foolishness. ![]() To public brutality ("The Massacre of the Innocents"), from private lunacy ("The Blue Cloak") to apocalyptic carnage ("Dulle Griet"). N one brightly colored canvas after another, Pieter Bruegel chronicled the varieties of human folly - from individual hubris ("The Fall of Icarus") New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Company. Human Folly? Indeed.īOOKS OF THE TIMES 'Headlong': Lost Masterpiece? Maybe. ![]()
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