(Camille de Peretti)
There are portraits that aren't content to be mere paint and canvas. They breathe, observe, and question. This is what happens to the narrator of "The Unknown Woman in the Portrait," Camille de Peretti, when she discovers an old painting (paintewr: Gustav Klimt).
Peretti constructs the narrative with fluid, introspective prose, almost like a confidential diary. The search for the origin of the unknown woman in the portrait becomes a journey of self-discovery. The portrait, initially a curiosity, transforms into an obsessive presence.