The Season of Migration
A Belgium, Fiction, Cultural book. I have been trying to be patient, to be calm, to make no...
The lyrically told story of one of the world's greatest artists finding his true calling Though Vincent van Gogh is one of the most popular painters of all time, we know very little about a ten-month period in the painter's youth when he and his brother, Theo, broke off all contact. In The Season of Migration, Nellie Hermann conjures this period in a profoundly imaginative, original, and heartbreaking vision of Van Gogh's early years, before he became the artist we know today. In December 1878, Vincent van Gogh arrives in the coal-mining village of Petit Wasmes in the Borinage region of Belgium, a blasted and hopeless landscape of hovels and slag heaps and mining machinery. Not yet the artist he is destined to become, Vincent arrives as an ersatz preacher, barely sanctioned by church authorities but ordained in his own mind and heart by a desperate and mistaken spiritual vocation. But what Vincent experiences in the Borinage will change him. Coming to preach a useless gospel he thought he knew and believed, he learns about love, suffering, and...
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- Pages: 244 pages
- ISBN: 9780374255473 / 0
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I have been trying to be patient, to be calm, to make no sudden moves. I am trying to do things right this time, to listen, to hear, to see. Great forces are shifting in me; I must let them take their time. I have been riding the waves of these forces as if I were in the ocean: some nights, they cast me to the floor, where I weep into the dirt; other nights, they are calm, and I feel I can see the land ahead. Nellie Hermann, The Season of Migration //
I loved this little book! I had no idea what a beautiful soul Van Gogh had or how tormented he was as a child and young man. It very nearly broke my heart to read about how sensitive, how caring, self-sacrificing he was, but how he was teased and tormented as a child, by his own family, and misunderstood and ridiculed by those very... It is a book that stimulates introspection and is almost too profound for casual reading at times. Vincent's undelivered letters to his brother Theo provide the body of the book with the author tying them together with her narrative where necessary. It's a slow read but worth the effort. Beautifully written story of Van Gogh's early years as a failed minister in the Borinage mining district of Belgium told through unanswered letters to his beloved brother Theo; the beginnings of his development as an artist, his compassion, mental illness
