About the author
Thomas Schlesser is a French art historian, professor, curator, and writer. His scholarly work has addressed Gustave Courbet, censorship, anthropocentrism in art, and the relation between aesthetic experience and public life.
Mona's Eyes is his second novel and uses fifty-two museum visits to introduce fifty-two works while following a child who may lose her sight. The linked biography is on French Wikipedia because no equivalent English identity page is available.
Where to start
Start with Mona's Eyes in Hildegarde Serle's English translation for a novel that doubles as an accessible route through the Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, and Centre Pompidou.
