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The God of Spring (2008)

di Arabella Edge

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Set in Paris during the upheavals of the French Revolution, the Empire and the Restoration, The God of Spring tells the story of painter Theodore Gericault. Having won a Gold Medal at the prestigious Salon for his painting Charging Chasseur, at the tender age of twenty-one, he is now, seven years later, searching for the subject of his next masterpiece. But he is lovesick, hopelessly addicted to his benefactor-uncle's young wife, Alexandrine, six years his senior. Every moment without her is an eternity.Until at the house of his neighbour he hears the story of the shipwreck of the French frigate Medusa off the shores of the West African coast and the abandonment of one hundred and fifty souls on an unseaworthy makeshift raft. A catastrophe that fascinated and horrified the French public, with its tales of betrayal, madness, murder and cannibalism.When he manages to track down two of the raft's survivors, Gericault knows he has finally found his subject, if only he can maintain his sanity.The God of Spring is the story of grand passions. In prose that vividly evokes its setting, Arabella Edge has brought to life the creation of an epic painting.… (altro)
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The God of Spring has been on my TBR for ages… I bought it because I was so impressed by Arabella Edge’s first novel The Company, which was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and won the 2001 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book in the Southeast Asia/South Pacific region. The God of Spring has turned out to be even better than I expected and I am cross with myself for leaving it so long to get round to reading it.

The novel, set in Restoration Paris in 1818, is the story of a great painting, The Raft of the Medusa, but it is also a study in character. Théodore Géricault (1791-1824) was – in real life and in this novel – a young man taking advantage of his uncle in more ways than one. His father wanted him to go into the family business, but he fancied himself as an artist and charmed his uncle into becoming his benefactor so that he could live a congenial life in a mansion, buy the very best in artist’s equipment and supplies, mooch about in Rome despising the work of neoclassicist artists, and cuckold his uncle into the bargain. When the novel opens Théodore is obsessed by his torrid affair with his aunt Alexandrine and suffers only desultory pangs of guilt over it; he is also supercilious towards his frivolous neighbour Horace who is cheerfully painting exactly the sort of insipid paintings that the restored court desires. Théodore – having won at the age of only 21 a Gold Medal at the Salon for his painting The Charging Chasseur, – feels pressured to paint something equally impressive because he feels it is his destiny … but inspiration, alas, has deserted him.

To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2016/07/24/the-god-of-spring-by-arabella-edge/ ( )
  anzlitlovers | Jul 27, 2016 |
The story centers around the last 6 years of Theodore Gericault's life and the creation of one of his masterpieces, The Raft of the Medusa. Gericault obsessed over the creation of this work. He visited sick people and watched them die. He brought bodies into his home so that he could watch them decompose. One wonders if the man was sane. Read the entire review at http://fuzzyhistory.com/2008/07/19/the-god-of-spring-by-arabella-edge/. ( )
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Set in Paris during the upheavals of the French Revolution, the Empire and the Restoration, The God of Spring tells the story of painter Theodore Gericault. Having won a Gold Medal at the prestigious Salon for his painting Charging Chasseur, at the tender age of twenty-one, he is now, seven years later, searching for the subject of his next masterpiece. But he is lovesick, hopelessly addicted to his benefactor-uncle's young wife, Alexandrine, six years his senior. Every moment without her is an eternity.Until at the house of his neighbour he hears the story of the shipwreck of the French frigate Medusa off the shores of the West African coast and the abandonment of one hundred and fifty souls on an unseaworthy makeshift raft. A catastrophe that fascinated and horrified the French public, with its tales of betrayal, madness, murder and cannibalism.When he manages to track down two of the raft's survivors, Gericault knows he has finally found his subject, if only he can maintain his sanity.The God of Spring is the story of grand passions. In prose that vividly evokes its setting, Arabella Edge has brought to life the creation of an epic painting.

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