for palma vecchio, at venice Krasznahorkai, László creator Author Szirtes, George Translator London Sylph editions 2013 eng 27 p. : ill, ; 25 cm. In The Bill, László Krasznahorkai’s madly lucid voice pours forth in a single, vertiginous, eleven-page sentence addressing Palma Vecchio, a sixteenth-century Venetian painter. Peering out from the pages are Vecchio’s voluptuous, bare-breasted blondes, a succession of models transformed on the canvas into portraits of apprehensive sexuality. Alongside these women, the writer that Susan Sontag called “the Hungarian master of apocalypse” interrogates Vecchio’s gift: Why does he do it? How does he do it? And why are these models so afraid of him even though he, unlike most of his contemporaries, never touches them? The text engages with the art, asking questions only the paintings can answer. László Krasznahorkai; translated by George Szirtes. Includes bibliographical references and index. Hungarian fiction Short stories 894.51134 KRA/B 9780956992093 (pbk.) IN-BhIIT 260602 20260604163903.0 11391