History Livestream, Starting with Van Gogh

“They’re all Impressionist painters, so how did Van Gogh end up having such a miserable life?”

In the 21st century, a young girl’s sigh, along with a newly edited video, was projected across the skies of late-19th-century France.

1. [Vincent van Gogh lived in poverty all his life and sold only one painting. After his death, his works sold for the staggering sum of 540 million yuan.]

In a small city in southern France, a destitute painter on the verge of a mental breakdown dazedly looked up...

The painter friend he admired and longed to emulate had left him. In his anguish, he cut off his right ear. The people around him regarded him as a madman and jointly petitioned the mayor to have him locked away in an asylum...

At that very moment, his paintings were projected onto the sky screen, while a clear female voice recounted his artistic achievements.

2. [Kafka's The Metamorphosis: Ignored in life, he left a final request to have all his manuscripts burned. After his death, his works shook the world and sparked “Kafka fever.”]

Office worker Kafka, in his usual emo mood: “The world kissed me with pain, and the pain killed me.”

“Any hardship can knock me down.”

“What I’m best at is never getting back up.”

“The day before yesterday, I got criticized because of the factory. Then I lay on the sofa for an hour, thinking about jumping out the win-dow.”

Huh? Did I just hear my name? Pause the window-jumping.

3. [Emily Dickinson, a legendary genius poet. She never married and lived in seclusion. At 25, she gave up socializing and devoted herself to writing poetry in solitude. She wrote 1,800 poems, of which only seven were published during her lifetime. Though she spent half her life shut away at home, she wrote some of the most rebellious and extraordinary poetry.]

Reclusive poet Emily: “?!”

4. [Cao Xueqin was so poor he couldn't afford manuscript paper, so he wrote Dream of the Red Chamber on old, discarded almanacs. Stricken by poverty and illness, he died on New Year's Eve amid the sound of firecrackers. The manuscript covering the eighty chapters after the first eighty was lost. The greatest of the Four Great Classical Novels remains incomplete, a regret that has endured through the ages.]

5. [...To be determined.]

Reader's guide:

* A historical livestream novel

* Famous historical figures who were unknown and impoverished during their lifetimes, but became renowned after death

- After you die, people all over the world will call your name in different languages.

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