Michael Francis Gibson's The Mill and the Cross leads the reader into a surprising painting by Peter Bruegel the Elder - The Way to Calvary - an ambiguous work which all at once illustrates the Passion of Christ and the execution of a Reformation preacher in a city rather like Antwerp where Bruegel lived in the early 1560s. The book was praised by the New York Times when it was first published in 2001: "as readable and riveting as a first-class spy-thriller." Ten years later the Polish film director Lech Majewski brought out his feature film based on the book and starring Charlotte Rampling,...

Le Moulin et la Croix, de Michael Francis Gibson plonge le lecteur dans un surprenant tableau de Pierre Breugel l'Aine - Le Portement de Crois - une uvre ambigue qui illustre a la fois la passion du Christ et l'execution d'un predicateur de la Reforme a l'epoque de Bruegel lui-meme. Ce livre qui, selon le New York Times, est aussi lisible et fascinant qu'un roman d'espionnage de premier ordre, inspira le film de Lech Majewski, Bruegel - le Moulin et la Croix, lance au Louvre en avril 2011 avec Charlotte Rampling, Michael York et Rutger Hauer (www.themillandthecross.com). Cette nouvelle...

Chronicles of the Greater Dream A Full Account of Recent Events in Gondwana Cast in the familiar form of a fantasy novel, this sweeping trilogy by Miguel Errazu (alter ego of the art writer Michael Francis Gibson) is a work of tremendous scope, imagination and sensibility. Combining imaginative playfulness, colorful imagery, and seriousness of purpose, this wise and witty book is about our being in the world and about the status of the imagination in modern society. The thrilling narrative conjures up a parallel world of such dazzling beauty that it should prompt readers to stand up, like the...

Chronicles of the Greater Dream A Full Account of Recent Events in Gondwana Cast in the familiar form of a fantasy novel, this sweeping trilogy by Miguel Errazu (alter ego of the art writer Michael Francis Gibson) is a work of tremendous scope, imagination and sensibility. Combining imaginative playfulness, colorful imagery, and seriousness of purpose, this wise and witty book is about our being in the world and about the status of the imagination in modern society. The thrilling narrative conjures up a parallel world of such dazzling beauty that it should prompt readers to stand up, like the...

Chronicles of the Greater Dream A Full Account of Recent Events in Gondwana Cast in the familiar form of a fantasy novel, this sweeping trilogy by Miguel Errazu (alter ego of the art writer Michael Francis Gibson) is a work of tremendous scope, imagination and sensibility. Combining imaginative playfulness, colorful imagery, and seriousness of purpose, this wise and witty book is about our being in the world and about the status of the imagination in modern society. The thrilling narrative conjures up a parallel world of such dazzling beauty that it should prompt readers to stand up, like the...