Watteau in Venice

Watteau in Venice: A Novel
Author	Philippe Sollers
Original title	La fête à Venise
Translator	Alberto Manguel
Cover artist	Canaletto, Regatta On The Grand Canal – 1730–35
Language	English
Genre	Fiction
Published	New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1994 (first English edition)[1]
Media type	Book
Pages	240
ISBN	9780684194516
OCLC	30155464

Watteau in Venice (French: La fête à Venise) is a novel by French author Philippe Sollers published in 1991 by Editions Gallimard, later translated into English by Alberto Manguel, and then published in 1994 by Charles Scribner's Sons.

The novel is a satirical story of art theft in Venice, including a romance with an American art student and frequent references to art. Ann Irvine of 'Library Journal' describes it as "a clever and sophisticated work that will appeal most to those who know European art and music."[2] Alexander Theroux of Review of Contemporary Fiction is less complimentary: "...all of it comprising a kind of Art Crit 301 strung to a weak detective story – the novel hasn't a smidge of drama – gave Sollers to believe he had a good idea for a novel. Sadly, he did not."[3]

References

Wattea in Venice: A novel. OCLC. OCLC 30155464. Retrieved 6 August 2014 – via OCLC Worldcat.
Irvine, Ann (1 August 1994). "Book Reviews: Fiction". Library Journal. 119 (13): 134.
Theroux, Alexander (Spring 1995). "Book Reviews". Review of Contemporary Fiction. 15 (2): 163.

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[1] Wattea in Venice: A novel. OCLC. OCLC 30155464. Retrieved 6 August 2014 – via OCLC Worldcat.

[2] Irvine, Ann (1 August 1994). "Book Reviews: Fiction". Library Journal. 119 (13): 134.

[3] Theroux, Alexander (Spring 1995). "Book Reviews". Review of Contemporary Fiction. 15 (2): 163.