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TITLE |
Homer, Portrait of an Artist as an Old Man |
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ALT__TITLE |
Homere-Portrait
de L'Artiste dans ses Vieux Jours |
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COUNTRY |
France/Italy/Swiss |
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NOTES |
The
references in the title are obviously to the Greek poet |
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Homer
(author of The Iliad and The Odyssey) and to James |
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Joyce's
novel "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man". |
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A famous
poet who is blind is married to a younger woman |
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who was one
of his students. He believes she is being |
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unfaithful
and her truthful rebuttal of his accusations won't |
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make him
change his mind. Finally he decides to kill himself. |
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