A painter who became a novelist, Theophile Gautier formulated the notion of art for art s sake. In this literary gem, the gaze is the central character as the eye of the beholder turns deadly. Paul d Aspremont, on holiday in Italy, meets his fiancee in all but name, a young English girl named Alicia Ward. What begins as an urbane and courtly affair descends into a Gothic nightmare as Paul is revealed to possess the evil eye, a jinx that kills all those he befriends. Novelist, poet, and critic, Theophile Gautier was a key ...
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A painter who became a novelist, Theophile Gautier formulated the notion of art for art s sake. In this literary gem, the gaze is the central character as the eye of the beholder turns deadly. Paul d Aspremont, on holiday in Italy, meets his fiancee in all but name, a young English girl named Alicia Ward. What begins as an urbane and courtly affair descends into a Gothic nightmare as Paul is revealed to possess the evil eye, a jinx that kills all those he befriends. Novelist, poet, and critic, Theophile Gautier was a key figure in the Romantic movement in France."
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