Luke Yohn từ Montpelier, LA, USA

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05/23/2024

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2019-08-30 19:31

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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: The Windy

In The Last Van Gogh, Alyson Richman roots us in the house of Dr. Gachet. She brings us in close to his desperate need to keep up appearances, into the isolation he craved and imposed upon his family, immediate and otherwise, and she contrasts it with other’s need for escape and expression, their simultaneous aversion to Gachet, the central figure in all the lives gathered in this book, and their need for his approval and attention. The claustrophobia and secrets of the house are tellingly contrasted with Van Gogh’s art, his colors cutting deeply into canvas to reveal. Alyson Richman communicates the eternal difficulty of a loved one, or impending loved one competing with art, and of balancing the artistic life with the not-so-simple desire to love and be loved by another. In those like Van Gogh, whose genius is among the least arguable facts in any kind of art, the possibility of human love and deep connection seems almost impossible. And while it would reveal me as either a fool or a flatterer to suggest that Alyson’s depiction of Van Gogh at Auvers supplants that which people carry in their mind, and for those that have seen Van Gogh’s in person, their eye, her deft and visionary use of color throughout the book, her care in conveying the subtlest emotions of her characters clearly, her sure hand and ease in story telling, in moving the tale forward effortlessly, and her devotion to getting the story right--to finding the emotional truth inherent in the interaction of these characters--allows us to see Van Gogh’s last days, his last creations--in a startlingly fresh way. Even though we know the ending--after her last, furtive meeting with Vincent, Marguerite Gachet says “I need not tell you what happened several days later”-Alyson Richman brings us the thought of possibility, of the chance that two isolated souls--Van Gogh isolated by art and illness, and Marguerite by simply being a young woman in a man’s house--might change the story, might escape that which constrains each of them. It’s a tribute to the skill of the author that until the very last moments, we care, and hope, for both of them, deeply.

Người đọc Luke Yohn từ Montpelier, LA, USA

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.