By Carol Wallace
In the summertime of 1890, within the French city of Auvers-sur-Oise, Vincent van Gogh shot himself within the chest with a revolver. He died days later, on the age of thirty-seven, mostly unknown regardless of having accomplished over thousand artistic endeavors that may move directly to turn into the most very important and valued within the world.
In this riveting novel, Carol Wallace brilliantly navigates the mysteries surrounding the grasp artist’s dying, counting on meticulous study to color an indelible portrait of Van Gogh’s ultimate days—and the friendship that could or would possibly not have destroyed him. Telling Van Gogh’s tale from an totally new perspective—that of his own health care provider, Dr. Gachet, expert in psychological sickness and nice lover of the arts—Wallace permits us to view the mythical painter as we’ve by no means visible him before. In our narrator’s eyes, Van Gogh is an impossible to resist puzzle, a guy whose brain, affected by demons, poses the main very likely lucrative problem of Gachet’s career.
Wallace’s narrative brims with suspense and wealthy mental perception because it tackles haunting questions on Van Gogh’s destiny. A masterly, gripping novel that explores the cost of creativity, Leaving Van Gogh is a luminous tale approximately what it capability to dwell authentically, and the ability and bounds of friendship.
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Not many widows—certainly not those who had remarried, as Madame van Gogh Grosschalk did—are so self-effacing. I am certain, though, that she is right. The new grave site is better. It lies on the north side of the cemetery, against the wall. Vincent would have liked this spot, surrounded as it is by the wheat fields he painted with such bravura and devotion. I transplanted some sunflowers from his first grave; they gave poor Theo pleasure and consolation back then. I am glad to think that something I did might have been a source of comfort to that poor man.
Their perception of the world is as important as their touch with a brush or their color sense, and it is very easy to overtax this faculty. At the same time, many of them live in terrible conditions, as Vincent had evidently done. Vincent van Gogh felt he could help the world with his painting. That seemed unlikely. It was probably this very conviction that was driving him mad. I had written my doctoral thesis on the topic of melancholy, and I knew how closely linked it was with the artistic temperament.
This is an excellent sign. You must, you must come to me if you feel any change. A new sense of difficulty, perhaps. Melancholy. Despair. ” He was buttoning his cuffs, head down. “I do not rule these things out, but they would surprise me.
