Despite numerous love affairs, Gustav Klimt had a special relationship throughout his life with Emila Flege, the daughter of a wealthy Viennese industrialist. She was first his student, then a portrait model (on the front page), and later the owner of a successful fashion house. Emili Flege's creations are immortalized in Klimt's provocative paintings.
Fourteen years after "Corrections" and five years after "Freedom," Franzen wrote another great novel, "his most intimate yet, in which he added some new tones to his voice.