Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life

　　榮獲法國勒諾多文學獎提名，藝術史遇上推理的迷人之作！

　　作者因為不慎掉了一個愛馬仕的行事曆，於是在e-bay上買了一本老舊日誌，沒想到這本日誌，是畢卡索著名畫作《哭泣的女人》畫中主角朵拉•瑪爾的記事本，其中有20頁記滿了電話和地址，許多為歐洲先鋒派藝術家如巴爾蒂斯、布拉賽、安德烈•布勒東、尚•考克多、保爾•艾呂雅、萊昂諾爾•菲尼、杰奎琳•蘭巴等，皆列在名冊之中。作者由此展開了她的藝術偵探之旅！

　　朵拉•瑪爾因身為畢卡索的情婦與畫作模特兒而廣為人知，然而在畢卡索的盛名之下，大家逐漸忘記，朵拉•瑪爾在藝術上的天賦亦為人所懾服。

　　於是，這本珍貴記者本的買主在兩年內細細探索這位深具啟發性、熱情且捉摸不定的女子，並深入了解她在每個人生階段所扮演的角色、以及其代表的意義，刻劃出這位被遺忘的藝術家，令人著迷的肖像。(文/博客來編譯)

In search of a replacement for his lost Herm s agenda, Brigitte Benkemoun's husband buys a vintage diary on eBay. When it arrives, she opens it and finds inside private notes dating back to 1951--twenty pages of phone numbers and addresses for Balthus, Brassa , Andr Breton, Jean Cocteau, Paul luard, Leonor Fini, Jacqueline Lamba, and other artistic luminaries of the European avant-garde.

After realizing that the address book belonged to Dora Maar--Picasso's famous "Weeping Woman" and a brilliant artist in her own right--Benkemoun embarks on a two-year voyage of discovery to learn more about this provocative, passionate, and enigmatic woman, and the role that each of these figures played in her life.

Longlisted for the prestigious literary award Prix Renaudot, Finding Dora Maar is a fascinating and breathtaking portrait of the artist.

This work received support from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States through their publishing assistance program.

Brigitte Benkemoun is a journalist and writer. She is the author of La petite fille sur la photo (2012) and Albert le Magnifique (2016).

Jody Gladding is a poet and translator. She has translated some thirty books from French, including, most recently, Roland Barthes’s Album: Unpublished Correspondence and Texts (2018), Michel Pastoureau’s Yellow: The History of a Color (2019), and Jean Giono’s Occupation Journal (2020).