Dear Diego (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Elena Poniatowska
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Epistolary
- Time of Work: The 1920’s and 1935
- Setting: Paris, France, and Mexico City, Mexico
- 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
Characters Discussed
Angelina Beloff (ahn-gahl-EE- nah BEH-lof), called Quiela (kee- EH-lah), a Russian painter of landscapes, still lifes, and portraits who also works as an engraver, lithographer, and book illustrator. She is Diego Rivera’s lover in Paris from 1910 to 1920. After he leaves her, she writes to him for a period of nine months until she realizes that he is neither coming back nor sending for her. More than ten years later, she travels to Mexico, where he has gone, but she does not look for him.
Diego Rivera (dee-EH-goh ree- VEH-rah), a Mexican painter...
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