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Title: That Uncomfortable Pause Between Life and Art

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Title: That Uncomfortable Pause Between Life and Art Title Record # 56894
Author: Brian W. Aldiss
Date: 1969-07-00
Type: SHORTFICTION [non-genre]
Length: short story
Language: English
Note: First published in The Queen, July 1969.
Synopsis: An art critic at an exhibition of one of his favorite painters falls into conversation with a strange woman, and muses on the progress of art and of technology over time, contrasted with the banal lives of most people, such as this woman.
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1969 That Uncomfortable Pause Between Life and Art... [as by Brian Aldiss]
1969No genre elements.
That Uncomfortable Pause Between Life and Art ...
Year Language Title
1973Translated by Bruno Martin
French Entre l'art et la vie
1983Translated by Annette von Charpentier
German Diese unangenehme Lücke zwischen Leben und Kunst

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