Light: Monet at Giverny: A Novel - Softcover

Figes, Eva

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843680009 ISBN 13: 9781843680000

Publisher: Pallas Athene, 2007

Synopsis

This shimmering short novel gives an extraordinary portrait of a day in the life of an artist at work and at home. In prose as luminous as the colors Monet used to portray his beloved garden, Eva Figes guides us through Giverny. We get to know Monet’s family—including his daughter Germaine who frets that she will not be able to marry the man she loves and his wife who greaves for a departed child—as well as the family’s friend, the abbé, who eats and drinks with them, observing the essential faith of the painter’s art. All of the characters experience, in very different ways, the richness of the light that Monet works unceasingly to pin down in his last great paintings.

About this title

About the Author:

Eva Figes, born in Berlin, moved to England with her family in 1939. She has published novels and social theory, including the feminist classic, Patriarchal Attitudes. She has two children, the author Kate Figes and the historian Orlando Figes.

Review:

"I have never read a text which goes even half as far as this one in expressing the particular poignancy which lay at the heart of the impressionist movement. I say this as an art critic. As a novelist I would simply like to pay my tribute to the mastery of language, portraiture and storytelling which Figes has now at her command. John Berger"

About this edition

• Publisher: Pallas Athene
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1843680009
• ISBN 13: 9781843680000
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128