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GIUSEPPE CAFIERO

 AUTHOR  BIO :

· “Tainted Blood”, short story, English translation by Simon Knight, in the Dalhousie Review (University of   Halifax, Canada);

· “Il denaro”, poem, in Gli immediati dintorni;

· “Papavero nero”, poem on the life of Edgar Allan Poe, in Lettera (University of Cardiff);

· “Cannabis Indica”, a short story on feudal intrigies in the 13th century), in Frontiera;

· “La ragazza di Galway, Roma e altre storie”, a novel about  the months James Joyce spent in Rome, serialised in Rendiconti..

· “Vincent: a life of Van Gogh”, Xlibris, 2003, Philadelphia, USA.

.“Vincent: a biography of Van Gogh”, Sanbun, New Delhi, India 2004

 “Ambiguities of Senses” – short stories, Sanbun, New Delhi, India 2005

A SUMMARY OF THE BOOK : “VINCENT : A LIFE OF VAN GOGH”

My main interest in the life of Vincent Van Gogh is in his humanity. In attempting to understand the man and his art, I have focused on the women and the places which played an essential part in his development.

 The women are presented as women of flesh and blood, certainly, but also in the roles of spiritual guides (Mrs Jones), mother figures (Kee Voss, Sien Hornik, Margot Begemann), or subjects for portraits (Mme Roulin and Mme Ginoux). 

Anyone interested in the tormented life of this extraordinary man is therefore bound to be fascinated by this account, which also draws out a further vital factor: Vincent’s obsessive determination to become a painter. It is impossible to understand the man without investigating the nature of his obessions.

 Obsession was the subtle, tragic malady which slowly but inexorably consumed the man: the obsessive determination to express himself in colour and symbol; an obsession with redemption (seen in his mission to the Belgian miners of the Borinage and his relationship with Sien), an obsession with friendship (the failure of his relationship with Gauguin), his obsession with a self-tormenting spirituality (the relationship with his pastor father), with brotherly love (his relationship with Theo, which touches on the morbid), with the sun of the southern France (Arles and Auvers), and with death itself.

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