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Goya's Glass by Monika Zgustová; Matthew Tree is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Goya's Glass about?

Richly imagined portraits celebrating three historical women—including Goya's muse—by an “outstanding writer” (Vaclav Havel). In “a unique voice that owes as much to Kundera as to Flaubert, to Hasek as to Tolstoy,” Czech writer Monika Zgustova brings to life the stories of three remarkable women in different countries and eras who defied the social restrictions of their day to find freedom of creative and personal expression (Juan Goytisolo, author of Exiled from Almost Everywhere). On her deathbed in the royal court of eighteenth-century Madrid, the Duchess of Alba, lover and portrait subject of Spanish painter Francisco Goya, recalls the passions of her youth. Living in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the nineteenth century, Bozena Nemcova defies the protocols of her arranged marriage and pursues love and the life of a published writer—until her readers condemn her as a danger to society. In 1922, writer Nina Berberova escapes persecution during the Russian Revolution and flees to Paris with poet Vladislav Khodasevich, where the intelligentsia naively covet the promise of the Soviet Union. Each woman attempts to pursue a life of passion, intimacy, and creativity in worlds that rar

Who reads Goya's Glass?

Author

Monika Zgustová; Matthew Tree

Publisher

The Feminist Press; The Feminist Press at CUNY

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781558617988

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Short Stories, Historical Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.24 / 5 (30 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14