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NATALIE d'Arbeloff has been drawing and writing for many years. Born in Paris, she lived in many countries before settling in London. Her main work involves art books, prints and paintings.
Her early work was "cyclo-styled" for a limited audience and was based on a fictional woman comic strip character called Augustine who could never finish her housework because she just had to stop to muse over deep questions of philosophy.
Exquisitely drawn and at times irrepressibly funny, the duplicated copies were eagerly collected by a small coterie of friends.
This present book is a full-colour version, although a bit more serious this time. After all, she is trying to achieve a scoop of interviewing divinity. There is now little time left for housework.
When Augustine asks: "Oh God, how do I know I'm talking to you and not to myself?" at least she understands that she is willingly deceiving herself.
JOHN RETY