Dec 26, 2009
At first Angelina, or Quiela (the Spanish name given to her by Diego), is confident that her lover will send for her. They share a ten-year union and the tragic memory of a child lost to a terrible fever. She continues to paint in his absence but cannot recapture the joys of creation that Diego’s presence made possible.
In a desperate attempt to bring his spirit back, she turns her letters into monologues that review their life together, the comradeship and poverty. Because Diego’s Mexican sensibility has, in a sense, replaced her Russian soul, she becomes almost crazed by...
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