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Light: With Monet at Giverny: A Novel (edition 2007)

by Eva Figes

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This shimmering short novel gives an extraordinary portrait of a day in the life of an artist at work and at home. In prose as luminous as the colors Monet used to portray his beloved garden, Eva Figes guides us through Giverny. We get to know Monet's family--including his daughter Germaine who frets that she will not be able to marry the man she loves and his wife who greaves for a departed child--as well as the family's friend, the abbé, who eats and drinks with them, observing the essential faith of the painter's art. All of the characters experience, in very different ways, the richness of the light that Monet works unceasingly to pin down in his last great paintings.… (more)
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Title:Light: With Monet at Giverny: A Novel
Authors:Eva Figes
Info:Pallas Athene (2007), Paperback, 96 pages
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This is a life in the day of Claude Monet. Somedody on the back cover calls it a masterpiece. I thought it was pretty good after I had worked out who everybody was: Auguste, Francoise, Marthe, She, He, Lily, him, her, Pierre, Theodore, Jean Pierre, Claude, Monet, Octave, Mirbeau. Second half of the book around the dinner table was excellent.
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This shimmering short novel gives an extraordinary portrait of a day in the life of an artist at work and at home. In prose as luminous as the colors Monet used to portray his beloved garden, Eva Figes guides us through Giverny. We get to know Monet's family--including his daughter Germaine who frets that she will not be able to marry the man she loves and his wife who greaves for a departed child--as well as the family's friend, the abbé, who eats and drinks with them, observing the essential faith of the painter's art. All of the characters experience, in very different ways, the richness of the light that Monet works unceasingly to pin down in his last great paintings.

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