![]() However, Strickland throws it all over and abandons his family to become an artist in Paris. He has a wife and two lovely children and enjoys a settled life with the prospect of a prosperous retirement. In place of Paul Gauguin, Maugham presents us with Englishman Charles Strickland, who leads the life of a mundane London stockbroker. And it was in The Moon and Sixpence that Maugham showed how this tension plays itself out, and how it affects the lives of everyone associated with artists of genius who try to harness the creative demons that drive them. It was this dichotomy between the ordinary and the driven that attracted Maugham. Real artists of genuine ability and intellectual vigor are seldom driven by forces that most people can comprehend. But he did not attribute this prolific energy merely to the desire of the artist to produce art that satisfied common notions of aesthetic delight. Throughout his long life, Maugham was an interested observer of the creative impulse. Although names and nationalities have been changed, there can be no doubt about the real identity of the principle character of this fascinating novel. Maugham to the extent that he wrote this fictionalized account of Gauguin's bizarre, sybaritic life. ![]() The story of French post-impressionist painter Paul Gauguin is one of the most remarkable tales of an artist that one can contemplate. ![]()
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