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Maugham uses a loose rendering of the life of Paul Gauguin to tell the story of George Strickland, who decides one day to divest himself of his mundane existence in the British middle class, and devote himself to art. In Strickland, Maugham creates a riveting anti-hero who, while committing reprehensible acts in his personal life, ultimately compels the reader because of his absolute dedication. The urbane and rational narrator mirrors the readers' ambiguity between admiration and repulsion, and
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Read a review on the garden that highly underrated the book. The plot is hardly interesting, given the times we live in, where a man leaving his wife and family to discover himself is hardly new... but the writing, the writing! The genius of Maugham!
as irwing stone did with lust for life, WSM gets into the very skin of his protagonist - the artist, charles strickland. raw, passionate, sensitive and uncouth (i thought it revealed a side to the human nature that exists within us all) at the same time, the agony of the artist is expressed with such thought provoking, rich prose.
May 15, 2011
KOMET
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Aug 14, 2018
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