Audiobook Giacometti in Paris by Michael Peppiatt in the ListenBook app
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Book description
Imagine hearing the clink of café cups and the murmur of Parisian streets while Michael Peppiatt, a master chronicler of the city's art soul, guides you through Alberto Giacometti's life. This isn't just a biography-it's a velvet-soft invitation into the very heart of 20th-century art, narrated with the intimate warmth of a friend sharing secrets over coffee. As Paul Theroux noted, it reads like a Samuel Beckett novel: gripping, raw, and utterly human.
Peppiatt, who spent decades walking those same Parisian streets, doesn't just recount Giacometti's journey-he makes you feel the grit of his studio's crumbling walls, smell the damp stone of Montparnasse, and hear the debates spilling from cafés where Picasso, Breton, and Sartre once argued. You'll walk beside Giacometti as he navigates surrealism's shadows, wrestles with artistic despair, and finds solace in his mother's gaze. His love affairs, the weight of his fractured marriage, the quiet agony of creation-Peppiatt reveals it all without a single dry art-history lecture.
What makes this audiobook magical is how Peppiatt's voice-calm, precise, deeply familiar-turns history into a living breath. You're not just learning about Giacometti; you're sitting across from him in his Parisian hovel, watching his figures emerge from the city's very bones. The city itself becomes a character: the grey stone streets, the buzzing terraces, the post-war shadows where genius was forged.
It's the perfect listen for anyone who's ever wondered how art feels-not just how it looks. You'll hear the echoes of Beckett's wit in Giacometti's struggles, the scent of Gauloises in the air, and the quiet triumph of a sculptor who transformed Paris into his masterpiece. This isn't just the best art book of 2023 (as The Times and Waterstones declared); it's the sound of history whispering directly to your soul. Let Peppiatt's voice carry you into the heart of Paris, where every shadow held a story, and every figure told a life. You won't just hear about Giacometti-you'll live it.
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