The true stories of the extraordinary feats other people were able to accomplish give us hope and inspiration for what we ourselves might one day do (but likely won’t anyhow).ĭifferent biographies have their own appealing elements some offer extremely accurate and perhaps even new information, while others make an attempt to get inside the mind of whoever they’re writing about. Though it seems to me the world has fewer and fewer people who deserve to have their biographies written, we are nevertheless as enthralled with the literary genre as we’ve ever been, and for good reason. More than just a recounting of the artist’s existence, Lust for Life attempts to reconstruct the most elaborate portrait possible of his mind, to understand its inner workings better than any history book could hope to. We see the vortex into which his life eventually turns into, and the madness which begins to consume his inner world, ultimately driving him to the desperate acts many remember him for. We are then taken further into his life as it takes on increasingly grandiose proportions, especially his years spent in Southern France in the company of many other artists of equal brilliance. We get to wade through his formative years, seeing how and where he cultivated the brilliance, passion and demons which marked his all-too-short life for evermore. The book essentially tells the story of the man’s life, from his birth all the way to his tragic passing. Where there are gaps, he fills them in with his imagination. Irving Stone doesn’t seek to change the facts of his existence to suit his story, rather approaching it the other way around. In Lust for Life by Irving Stone, we see his life recounted as a novel.įirst of all, I do need to clarify, this is indeed a novel and it is fictional in its nature, despite much of it being based on what is known about Vincent Van Gogh’s life.
Few lives exemplify this as well as Vincent Van Gogh‘s, the famous Dutch painter and one of the most influential figures in the history of art. Being considered a one-of-a-kind genius in any area of life often entails some sort of sacrifice the brightest and most creative among us are often tortured by elements most of us will never understand.
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