THOMAS SCHLESSER is the director of the Hartung-Bergman Foundation in the Antibes, France, and the author of several books about art and its relationship to politics in the 20th century. He is the grandson of André Schlesser, known as Dadé, a well-known singer who founded of the Cabaret L’Écluse. Mona’s Eyes is Schlesser’s American debut. It has been translated into thirty-seven languages.