Title : Light - Eva Figes - book
Summary :
Lumière is an invitation to experience a day in the life of Claude Monet at the beginning of the century. From dawn to dusk, we see the painter's world come into being, followed by the awakening of the familiar and intimate characters who inhabit Monet's house: Alice, his second wife; Germaine, who would like to marry Pierre Sisley; Marthe, the daughter who agrees to an unexpected marriage with her American brother-in-law to raise Monet's motherless grandchildren, Jimmy and Lily; and Michel Monet, one of the painter's sons, strangely melancholic. Their appearance, in a novel where moments of consciousness alternate with superb descriptive passages, is reminiscent of the art of Virginia Woolf. For it is indeed art—executed in nature in this unique garden—and the ephemeral aspect of things that constitute the themes of Eva Figes's novel, hailed in England as a masterpiece.
- EAN: 9782869302686
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