![]() ![]() That’s something I think I will need to do. The writing is pure and vivid, and I would have surely captured numerous quotes had I read it instead of listened to it. ![]() Their conflict over Stroeve’s wife Blanche is extremely interesting when viewed in this context, to say nothing about Blanche’s motivations for choosing Strickland (art) over Stroeve (love). In contrast, the character of Stroeve is the archetype of love, and he conducts himself in the way all must who wish to put love above all else. His relations with others show the depths to which one must truly stoop in order to create something of enduring truth and meaning. I viewed the character of Charles Strickland, the mild mannered stockbroker who rejected everything in life for a single-minded pursuit of his art, as the archetype of what art is and what the artist must do to achieve it. It is about art in every sense of the word. Based on the life of Paul Gauguin-or so all the reviews tell me-it is about so much more. Here’s what I wrote about it on September 13, 2004, after hearing it for the first time as an audiobook I checked out from the library:Īnother audiobook from the library and another winner. ![]()
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