Dear Diego (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Elena Poniatowska
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Plot: Romance
- Time of Work: The 1920’s and 1935
- Setting: Paris, France, and Mexico City, Mexico
- Principal Characters: Angelina Beloff (Quiela), Diego Rivera
- Genres: Long fiction, Epistolary literature
- Subjects: Love or romance, Art or artists, Paris, 1920’s, Letter writing, Painting or painters, Mexico or Mexicans, Loneliness, Cubism
- Locales: Paris, France, Mexico City, Mexico
The Novel
Dear Diego is based on one chapter of Bertram Wolfe’s The Fabulous Life of Diego Rivera (1963). The novel is a fictionalized portrayal of Quiela (the Russian painter Angelina Beloff) as a broken-hearted lover waiting for the well-known painter Diego Rivera to send for her from Mexico City.
Dear Diego is divided into twelve love letters dated from October 19, 1921, through July 22, 1922—nine months in which Quiela, in spite of her desperation and longing for her lover, creates her own work as an illustrator for the Parisian magazine...
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