![]() ![]() ![]() He sounds pompous in a way he rarely does in the stories. In the novel, he has space for a much more leisurely approach and this results in a markedly more orotund and verbose style. ![]() In some of the short stories Maugham allows himself a page or so of meandering introduction, but generally he gets to the meat of the characters and their interaction quite quickly. And it initially feels less appealing than the short stories because of the style. This novel, very successful in its own day, is an account of a fictional English painter, ‘Charles Strickland’, who leaves his respectable job as a stockbroker and goes to seek his destiny as a painter first in Paris, then in the South Seas. It is loosely inspired by the career of French stockbroker-cum-artist Paul Gauguin (1848-1903). (Chapter 41)Īfter three volumes of short stories, I thought I’d try some of Maugham’s (shorter) novels. The writer is more concerned to know than to judge. ![]()
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