The Moon and Sixpence
About This Novel
Charles Strickland is a British securities broker with a successful career and a prominent family. What puzzled everyone was that in middle age, he suddenly abandoned his wife and children and came to Paris penniless to study painting. In a foreign country, he was poor and sick, but he became more determined and persistent in his dream. After experiencing various bizarre encounters, he came to an isolated island in the South Pacific, married a local girl, had children, and successfully created a series of stunning masterpieces. At this moment, he was struck down by terminal illness and blindness. Before he died, he made an astonishing decision... The protagonist of this novel is based on the famous French painter Gauguin. The novel mainly expresses the contradiction between dreams and survival, the contradiction between responsibility and self, and the contradiction between genius and madman. "There were six pennies all over the ground, but he looked up and saw the moon." Charles has been pursuing a kind of pure and shocking beauty throughout his life. Perhaps this kind of beauty is the real value of life. May you and I both be the ones who always chase the moon.
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