Light (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Eva Figes
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Extended prose poem
- Time of Work: A summer day in 1900
- Setting: Giverny, France
- Principal Characters: Claude Monet, Alice Raingo Hoschede, Lily Butler, Jimmy Butler, Marthe Hoschede, Germaine Hoschede, Jean-Pierre Hoschede, Michel Monet, Octave Mirbeau, Anatole Toussaint, Theodore Butler
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction, Impressionistic literature
- Subjects: Family or family life, France or French people, Nature, Art or artists, Marriage, Alienation, Guilt, Social life, Emotions, Obsession, Eighteenth century, Death or dying, Painting or painters, Loneliness, Ponds, Victorian era or Victorianism, Gardens or gardening, Impressionism, Light
- Locales: Giverny, France
The Novel
The action of Light takes place on a single day, from first light to nightfall, in the summer of 1900, and focuses on an artist in thrall to his craft and the people around him who live in a world dominated by him. In pursuit of his art, Claude Monet has built his own version of Eden at Giverny. He has painstakingly designed the gardens and even rerouted a stream to modify the lily pond which he carefully monitors.
The novel falls into three parts. The first period, chapters 1 through 6, from dawn to midday, presents the stream of consciousness of each...
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