Tormented Genius (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Alan Honour
- First Published: 1967
- Time of Work: 1853–1890
- Setting: Holland, England, and Paris and Arles, France
- Principal Characters: Vincent van Gogh, Theo van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Anton Mauve, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Émile Bernard, Margot Begemann
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: France or French people, Suicide, Art or artists, Genius, Brothers, Depression, mental, Painting or painters, Netherlands or Dutch people, Biography
- Locales: Paris, France, England, Holland
Form and Content
In the fifteen short chapters and epilogue of Tormented Genius: The Struggles of Vincent van Gogh, Alan Honour tells the tragic and moving story of van Gogh’s short life. He makes full use (as every biographer of van Gogh must) of Vincent’s letters to his younger brother Theo, in which Vincent poured out his troubled thoughts and feelings to the only person with whom he was close.
The story is told mostly in narrative form, with a minimum of invented dialogue. Honour’s focus is on van Gogh’s worldly failures, his difficulties in getting...
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