Nov 16, 2009

Dear Diego | Dear Diego

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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Dear Diego | Dear Diego

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Characters Discussed

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