Two masterful artistsauguin and van Goghome alive in a vibrant exploration of friendship, art, and madness Two paintersaul Gauguin and Vincent van Goghre living together in the sleepy town of Arles in 1888. Soon, Gauguin, frustrated by van Gogh refusal to acknowledge his increasingly troubled mind, will depart for Paris. In two years, van Gogh will be dead by his own hand. In the meantime, the friends discuss their craft; they frequent a local caf?that van Gogh will soon immortalize; they become acquainted with a young prostitute, Lotte, who becomes Gauguin lover; they argue; they paint. In Derek Walcott new play, O Starry Starry Night, two world-renowned artists come to life as they wrestle both with grand themesriendship, loyalty, famend with more mundane concerns, money primary among them. The scenes Walcott sketches summon several of van Gogh most famous paintings: Sunflowers, The Night Caf?/I>, The Bedroom at Arles. His manipulation of languagean Gogh eloquent monologues giving way to more abstract speechesvokes the painter descent into madness. Over the action hangs the threat of violence, of death, which lends the play a potent urgency; for at least one of the characters, time is quickly running out. O Starry Starry Night is powerfully wrought, and demonstrates once again the sharpness of Walcott eye: as a painter, as a poet, as a writer, and, above all, as an observer of human follies, foibles, failings, and aspirations.
O Starry Starry Night
- 作者： Walcott, Derek
- 出版社： Farrar
- 出版日期： 2014-02-18
- ISBN碼： 9780374227074
- 編號： 203c312179975
$ 473 元
原價 525
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$473