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A French teacher on the verge of retirement is invited to a glittering opening that showcases the artwork of his former student, who has since become a celebrated painter. This unexpected encounter leads to the older man posing for his portrait. Possibly in the nude. Such personal exposure at close range entails a strange and troubling pact between artist and sitter that prompts both to reevaluate their lives. Blondel, author of the hugely popular novel The 6:41 to Paris, evokes an intimacy of dangerous intensity in a tale marked by profound nostalgia and a reckoning with the past that allows its two characters to move ahead in to the future.… (mais)
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My first book by Blondel, and it will not be my last! A short but interesting book about life, relationships, and aging. The main character reminds me much of myself, he is older and facing the choices he has made, both in his personal and professional life. He is in the midst of a meet-up with a one-time student of his, who is now a successful artist, and who also faces his own life-challenges and choices, even though still young. The book is well written and very true to life, showing that not all of your life choices are made by you, but thrust upon you. ( )
  CRChapin | Jul 8, 2023 |
I read this in one sitting. Thank heaven for a writer who tells the story he wants to tell, in as many words as he feels is necessary, and a publisher who isn't afraid to publish it that way. I admire New Vessel Press for providing us Anglophones with this lovely piece of work.

Louis Claret is an aging schoolteacher, divorced, attached - if awkwardly - to his two adult daughters and ex-wife. An unexpected invitation to an art exhibit brings him back in touch with a student from decades ago, one he only vaguely remembers, who is now a rising star as a painter. The two men cautiously reconnect, as the painter asks to paint the older man's portrait - and a slow, hesitant intimacy develops. The painter's exploration of the teacher leads the teacher to rediscover aspects of himself he had avoided, suppressed or forgotten - both traumatic and joyous. The painter exposes himself as well, groping along a path toward a leap forward in his art, and revealing just how much the teacher had meant to him years ago.

A deeply poignant and thoughtful exploration of aging, memory, love, art, teaching, and connection. ( )
  JulieStielstra | May 17, 2021 |
Exposure. What does the word mean to you? Is it physical? Emotional? Is it purely public or can a person be exposed to themselves? Is exposure positive or negative? We speak of exposing a person's character or their lies. Flashers expose their bodies. But then there's the sense of exposure within photography. Different exposures lead to different final images. Can a person, a thing, an action be partially exposed and still be true? Jean-Philippe Blondel is playing with many different ideas of exposure and their impact in his novel Exposed.

Louis Claret is an English teacher in France. He's invited to a gallery showing when one of his former pupils, now a well known painter, has a retrospective and the novel opens with him reflecting on the fact that he's lost his passion for teaching and he's uncertain why he was included on the guest list for the event. When he meets his student, Alexandre Laudin, again they speak of nothing of any consequence and Claret's life continues on as it always has. But then Laudin gets in touch with him and the two kindle an odd sort of friendship, a kind of reliance on each other. And Laudin asks his former teacher to model for a planned triptych, not just to pose for a conventional portrait but to pose nude. This request exposes Louis not only in a physical sense but it exposes him emotionally too as he considers the request.

The novel is not sexual, exactly. The frisson is more in the lure of possibility and of seeing oneself (hopefully) admired through the eyes of another. It is in the potential for Laudin to uncover the essence of his old teacher, of Claret baring not just his flesh but his soul. The novel is narrated by Louis and it is deeply meditative and introspective. There are no big plot movements, only small events in the quiet reckoning Louis makes of his life in late middle age. He weaves the instances of his childhood, his now failed marriage, and his relationship with his adult daughters into the experience of being Laudin's subject and perhaps even his friend. There is an elegiac tone to the novel and Louis' life, as he exposes his past, has a sort of torpor to it. It is a subtle, ambiguous novel, one where the meaning, the art is continually exposed, layer by painstaking layer, even after the last page is finished. It is a short novel but one that leaves the reader wondering in the end just what all has, in fact, been exposed. The heart of Claret? Who's to say? ( )
  whitreidtan | Nov 15, 2019 |
‘The implacable blue of the sky. The tender green of the leaves. The golden yellow of sunlight. All the nuances. All the alternations – blue, yellow, green, green, yellow, blue. One day I’ll learn the names of colours, because once you master the colours, then you can chase the black away.’

A short, meditative kind of novel; the kind of thing where very little happens, where certain small actions or objects trigger memories and musings. This is not for the car-chasing, thrill a minute reader. What it is, for those who delve into it, is an excellent study of late middle-age disquietude and a complex, evolving friendship between the two main characters.

As Louis Claret approaches his late fifties, this English teacher attends a retrospective art exhibition by Alexandre Laudin, one of his former pupils. They re-connect after a number of years, and Laudin asks the older man if he would pose for him as a model. Over the course of several months the novel slowly unfolds, as Laudin paints first one, then another of what he proposes as a triptych. Interspersed with these moments are Claret’s entries into his newly-started journal, in which he looks back on his failed marriage, his two grown-up daughters, and memories from his earlier life and his travels around Europe. Laudin is a gay man, and there is a subtle undercurrent, perhaps not of sexual tension between the two, but certainly something – which at times seems to both unsettle and excite Claret. As the novel approaches its conclusion there is another journey, which brings Claret full circle to one of his earlier memories in Scotland, and feels something like a small moment of resolution for both men.

The prose is precise, poetic, and the reflections on art, memories and life are deeply affecting:
‘What’s left are sources of light. Memories drawing a path across the earth. Sometimes, one of these coils of memory becomes more luminous than the others. Almost phosphorescent. A glowworm in a graveyard of memories.’

This is a subtle, quiet novel, with an excellent translation of Blondel’s original French by Alison Anderson. Definitely a must for fans of novels that makes you simply enjoy and appreciate the writing as it flows, for those who want a novel of ideas, and for anyone who appreciates fine literature. A strongly recommended 4.5 stars from me. ( )
  Alan.M | Jun 1, 2019 |
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A French teacher on the verge of retirement is invited to a glittering opening that showcases the artwork of his former student, who has since become a celebrated painter. This unexpected encounter leads to the older man posing for his portrait. Possibly in the nude. Such personal exposure at close range entails a strange and troubling pact between artist and sitter that prompts both to reevaluate their lives. Blondel, author of the hugely popular novel The 6:41 to Paris, evokes an intimacy of dangerous intensity in a tale marked by profound nostalgia and a reckoning with the past that allows its two characters to move ahead in to the future.

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