The Stone Carvers (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Jane Urquhart
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1866-1934
- Setting: Shoneval, in southwestern Ontario, Canada, and Vimy Ridge, near Arras, France
- Principal Characters: Klara Becker, Dieter Becker, Helga Becker, Tilman Becker, Joseph Becker, Eamon O’Sullivan, Father Pater Archangel Gstir, Walter Allward, Giorgio Vigamonti
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Suffering, France or French people, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Nineteenth century, Art or artists, Canada or Canadians, Sculpting or sculptors
- Locales: Ontario, Canada, Arras, France
Like two of Jane Urquhart’s earlier novels, The Whirlpool (1986) and The Underpainter (1997), The Stone Carvers is about art and artists. However, the central character in The Whirlpool was a woman who was rejected by the poet she loved because he preferred illusion to reality, while the protagonist of The Underpainter was an elderly artist whose calculated detachment merely made his art worthless, as well as losing him the one love of his life. Like The Whirlpool, The Stone Carvers has a woman protagonist and she, too, loses the man...
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