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- English
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About this book
"It's in [Gauguin's] part of the story, so full of the contradictions of this yearning, difficult man, that Vargas Llosa makes the book come alive." —
Time
A New York Times Notable Book
Flora Tristán, the illegitimate child of a wealthy Peruvian father and French mother, grows up in poverty and journeys to Peru to demand her inheritance. On her return in 1844, she makes her name as a champion of the downtrodden, touring the French countryside to recruit members for her Workers' Union.
In 1891, Flora's grandson, struggling painter and stubborn visionary Paul Gauguin, abandons his wife and five children for life in the South Seas, where his dreams of paradise are poisoned by syphilis, the stifling forces of French colonialism, and a chronic lack of funds, though he has his pick of teenage Tahitian lovers and paints some of his greatest works.
Flora died before her grandson was born, but their travels and obsessions unfold side by side in this double portrait, a rare study in passion and ambition, as well as the obstinate pursuit of greatness in the face of illness and death.
"Through his characters, Vargas Llosa [captures] much of the liberationist spirit of the nineteenth century, the great romantic desire to escape the cramping bonds of tradition, whatever the cost." — The Washington Post
"Oddly affecting . . . an engrossing, sometimes horrifying image of social conditions in France [from] one of the great Latin American novelists of his time." — The New York Times Book Review
"As beautifully, boldly, and invitingly painted as anything from Gaugin . . . seductively written." — The Baltimore Sun
A New York Times Notable Book
Flora Tristán, the illegitimate child of a wealthy Peruvian father and French mother, grows up in poverty and journeys to Peru to demand her inheritance. On her return in 1844, she makes her name as a champion of the downtrodden, touring the French countryside to recruit members for her Workers' Union.
In 1891, Flora's grandson, struggling painter and stubborn visionary Paul Gauguin, abandons his wife and five children for life in the South Seas, where his dreams of paradise are poisoned by syphilis, the stifling forces of French colonialism, and a chronic lack of funds, though he has his pick of teenage Tahitian lovers and paints some of his greatest works.
Flora died before her grandson was born, but their travels and obsessions unfold side by side in this double portrait, a rare study in passion and ambition, as well as the obstinate pursuit of greatness in the face of illness and death.
"Through his characters, Vargas Llosa [captures] much of the liberationist spirit of the nineteenth century, the great romantic desire to escape the cramping bonds of tradition, whatever the cost." — The Washington Post
"Oddly affecting . . . an engrossing, sometimes horrifying image of social conditions in France [from] one of the great Latin American novelists of his time." — The New York Times Book Review
"As beautifully, boldly, and invitingly painted as anything from Gaugin . . . seductively written." — The Baltimore Sun
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Praise
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- 1 Flora in Auxerre
- 2 The Spirit of the Dead Watches
- 3 Bastard and Fugitive
- 4 Mysterious Waters
- 5 The Shadow of Charles Fourier
- 6 Annah from Java
- 7 News from Peru
- 8 Portrait of Aline Gauguin
- 9 The Crossing
- 10 Nevermore
- 11 Arequipa
- 12 What Are We?
- 13 The Nun Gutiérrez
- 14 Wrestling with the Angel
- 15 The Battle of Cangallo
- 16 The House of Pleasure
- 17 Words to Change the World
- 18 The Late-Blooming Vice
- 19 The Monster-City
- 20 The Sorcerer of Hiva Oa
- 21 The Last Battle
- 22 Pink Horses
- Also by Mario Vargas Llosa
- Copyright