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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19990717
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Bitter life

FROM A HIGH PLACE: A LIFE OF ARSHILE GORKY. By Matthew Spender. Knopf; 417 pages; $35.

BLACK ANGEL: A LIFE OF ARSHILE GORKY. By Nouritza Matossian. Chatto & Windus; 512 pages; Pounds25

ARSHILE GORKY fabricated a rich history for himself: he was a cousin of Maxim Gorky (never mind that the Russian writer had invented the name); he trained as a painter with the modern masters in France and studied engineering in the Ivy League. He plagiarised poems and love letters. Very little, in fact, of what Gorky said about his past was true, although the past ...

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