Nov 15, 2009

Dear Diego | Dear Diego

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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Dear Diego | Dear Diego

At a glance:

The Novel

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