Lust for Life

About this book

No artist has been more ruthlessly driven by his creative urge nor more isolated by it from most ordinary sources of human happiness than Vincent Van Gogh. A painter of genius his life was an incessant struggle against poverty discouragement madness and despair. Lust for Life skilfully captures the exciting atmosphere of the Paris of the Post-Impressionists and reconstructs with great insight the development of Van Goghs art. The painter is brought to life not only as an artist but as a personality and this account of his violent vivid and tormented life is a novel of rare compassion and vitality.