Speck's Idea | Speck's Idea

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Author: Mavis de Trafford Young
First Published: 1979
Type of Plot: Social realism
Time of Work: The 1970's
Setting: Paris
Principal Characters: Sandor Speck, Lydia Cruche, Senator Antoine Bellefeuille, Signor Vigorelli
Genres: Short fiction
Subjects: 1970’s, France or French people, Twentieth century, Art or artists, Paris, Painting or painters, Widows or widowers, Wealth, Western Europe or western Europeans, Fascism, Joy or sorrow
Locales: Paris, France

As the story opens, Sandor Speck is locking up his art gallery in the Faubourg Saint-Germain neighborhood of Paris. He contemplates his respectable and conservative neighborhood and reflects on the melancholy rainy evening. Speck sits down to his solitary, simple dinner in a neighborhood restaurant and takes out his yellow pad and pencils. He begins to plan his May-June show. Paris art critics are hinting that the time has come, but for what? Speck believes he has the answer, a French painter, who lived from about 1864 to 1949, mostly forgotten, someone whom Speck can...

Speck's Idea | Speck's Idea

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