He then thrusts his hand into a lamp flame and begs for just five minutes of time with Kee before it burns off completely. Later on, he tries to visit her at home but is turned away by the family. When he proposes to her, she rejects him. In Etten, Vincent van Gogh falls in love with Cornelia Stricker. As a result, he loses his job for undermining the dignity of priesthood. He gives away most of his salary and moves into an unheated hut so that others can live better lives than they would otherwise have had. The locals don’t take him seriously because of his appearance and soon instead of preaching, he spends time drawing people around him and admiring their beauty amidst squalor. When he fails the entrance exam to study theology at university, he is sent as a missionary to the mining town of Borinage in Belgium. This led to depression and he took comfort in religion.Įventually, Vincent becomes a Calvinist pastor. At this time, he developed a crush on Ursula, but she rejected him.
He was raised in a strict household and religion played an important role in his life. The author begins the story with Vincent’s teenage years.
The book focuses on Sunflowers (1888), Bedroom in Arles (1889), Wheat Field with Crows (1890) and other famous paintings of his time. In each section, he learns something that influences his work. It starts with London and ends in Auvers-sur-Oise, France. The book is divided into nine sections, each named after the place where van Gogh lived.
He drew heavily from Vincent and Theo van Gogh’s letters to each other, as well as historical research. 1-Page Summary of Lust for Life Overall SummaryĪmerican author Irving Stone wrote the novel Lust for Life in 1934, which was based on Vincent van Gogh’s life.
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