The Portrait

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Fourteen years later, he published his second book, Passport to War. His recent books include: Norton, ; Passing Through: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden, in which his thoughts on his two great passions, poetry and gardening, are illustrated with photos of the legendary garden at his seaside Provincetown home. In he was named United States Poet Laureate. He died at the age of on May 14, Born on July 29, , Stanley Kunitz was the author of many poetry collections, as well as the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Selected Poems, Leave this field blank.

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Now they appear again in this tv-movie 'The Portrait'. It is a very weak story. The film goes about the life of two retired people how going to move away from there house.

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But there daughter played by the real daughter of g. I really hope she will appear soon again in a movie and maybe win her first oscar. I think everyone tried to made a good movie and there are also very good moments in it. But I saw the film with French voices and that wasn't good, I prefer the real voices.

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Inside TV Movie Many years pass, and Chartkov achieves such a high reputation he is asked by the Academy of Arts to examine the work of another prominent artist, one who devoted his life to studying art in Italy. His madness eventually manifests itself into a physical illness, and Chartkov dies, haunted to the end by memories of the horrible portrait.

Petersburg, which was also the home of a strange moneylender. Specifically, his borrowers developed qualities contrary to their previous personalities: Many of his customers even died unnaturally early deaths.

One day, the moneylender comes to the artist asking for his portrait to be painted, and the artist agrees, grateful for the chance to paint such a peculiar subject. Despite the moneylender begging him to finish, the artist holds firm, and the moneylender dies shortly thereafter, leaving the portrait in the artist's possession.

Inexplicably bizarre events begin happening in the artist's life. He becomes jealous of one of his pupils revealed to be the young Chartkov , attempts to sabotage him, flies into rages, chases away his children and comes close to beating his wife. To make amends, the artist attempts to burn the portrait, but a friend stops him, taking the painting for his own instead.

After witnessing its evil nature, his friend eventually passes the portrait to his nephew, who sells it to an art collector, who hawks it to someone else, and eventually the portrait's trail is lost.

The artist feels immense guilt over the evil piece of art and makes his son promise to track it down and destroy it. This is the reason which brought the young man to the art auction. However, once he concludes his story and his audience turns to examine the portrait, they find it missing: They wonder if they had seen it at all. It has been argued that Gogol's influences can be traced to Western sources.

That the plot of the demonic Kunstlernovelle seems largely derivative of Western authors such as E. This places him in a wider literary tradition and connects him with the work being produced in the West. An explanation for this difference is offered in the hope of elevating the seriousness of the piece.

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A key theme of the short story is to express the corrupting influence of money on art. This reflects a general concern among Russian writers in the s about the degradation of culture under the condition of a nascent market economy that came to replace the previous aristocratic patronage system.