Martin happens on a painting which he takes to be by Bruegel. He finds himself invited to dinner at the house of a repellent and warring couple, on whom the land and property they own seems entirely wasted. Martin, the main character, is supposed to be writing a book. A dramatized radio play directed by Clive Brill and produced by Ann Scott was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013. An abridged version by Paul Kent and read by Martin Jarvis was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1999. The novel was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize. The story is essentially a farce, but contains a large amount of scholarship about the painter.įrayn distinguishes between the iconology and iconography of the paintings and suggests that rather than simply being a series of pastoral images they symbolise a Dutch populace undergoing great suffering as a result of Spanish rule. The plot centres on the discovery of a long-lost painting from Pieter Bruegel's series The Months. Headlong is a novel by Michael Frayn, published in 1999.
Faber) featuring Bruegel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
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