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Letters to Camondo
- Narrateur(s): Edmund de Waal
- Durée: 3 h et 18 min
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2021 Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year
"With deep appreciation for Camondo's generosity and taste, de Waal takes listeners on a journey they won't forget." (AudioFile Magazine)
This program is read by the author
A tragic family history told in a collection of imaginary letters to a famed collector, Moise de Camondo
Letters to Camondo is a collection of imaginary letters from Edmund de Waal to Moise de Camondo, the banker and art collector who created a spectacular house in Paris, now the Musée Nissim de Camondo, and filled it with the greatest private collection of French 18th-century art.
The Camondos were a Jewish family from Constantinople, “the Rothschilds of the East", who made their home in Paris in the 1870s and became philanthropists, art collectors, and fixtures of Belle Époque high society, as well as being targets of antisemitism - much like de Waal's relations, the Ephrussi family, to whom they were connected. Moise de Camondo created a spectacular house and filled it with art for his son, Nissim; after Nissim was killed in the First World War, the house was bequeathed to the French state. Eventually, the Camondos were murdered by the Nazis.
After de Waal, one of the world’s greatest ceramic artists, was invited to make an exhibition in the Camondo house, he began to write letters to Moise de Camondo. These fifty letters are deeply personal reflections on assimilation, melancholy, family, art, the vicissitudes of history, and the value of memory.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux