Each water lily, which he paints, he sees her in every leaf, every reflection in the water - its Camille. His great love - he misses it every day. You no longer alive.
1908 remembers the aging painter Claude Monet in his life, his love - his eyes are getting worse, but the images do not fade away in his head. He takes me on a journey into his past.
He loves what he can not have.
1857th Claude is seventeen and tried with the drawing of cartoons a little money. His father owns a small business for ship supplies and wishes that his son takes over this one day. But Claude wants to paint. He feels called to the artist - it takes him to Paris. After the death of his mother he no longer holds in the lower middle-Le Havre. He breaks with his father and went to Paris to study art.
where he lives in poverty, where they share a studio with Frédéric Bazille and gets to know Auguste Renoir, Claude Pissarro and Edouard Manet. Together they form an artistic community that is trying desperately to draw attention to herself and her paintings - the success of remains.
1866 Claude learns to know the young Camille in her uncle's bookstore. He falls in love with her. The situation seems hopeless, because she is a girl from a wealthy family and another engaged.
He fights.
Claude did not give up - and finally leaves Camille her family to live with Claude. They move from one accommodation to the next - a sleazy than the other - they have no money, Claude does not sell pictures. Nevertheless, he continued to paint.
you fight.
Camille had her life with Claude differently. He is obsessed with the arts - she feels neglected. Against this beloved arrive they can not.
plays dazzling and bright, sometimes soft and pastel - that the artist painted Stephanie Cowell personality Claude Monet. This time he is sympathetic to me, sometimes he strikes me as an egotist. No aspect is left out. But only by Camille produced a complete picture - for me it is the main character, even if it operates mostly in the background. Their desperation while trying to build a life with and on the side of Claude Monet, their fear of ejection from the company, its ambivalent in relation to their family - all these emotions dominate the Novel.
Camille is on every page, every word, every letter.
Hardcover: 416 pages, published by Droemer / Knaur , October 2010. From the American Susan Aeckerle, original title. Claude & A Novel of Camille Monet.
ISBN: 978-3426198704
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