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Chargement... Frida's Bedpar Slavenka Drakulic
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. If you don't already know Frida Kahlo's story or her art, this is not the place to start. I picked up this book because I like her art and wanted to know more about her. But the time shifts and change of narrator, especially, had me confused until I was more than halfway through this short book. I might have liked this as a short story; but even this slim volume was too much gloom. What a stunning work of fiction! The odd time that I have encountered Frida Kahlo's art, I have looked at it with my head tilted sideways trying to see inside the mind of the artist behind the work. Drakulic has accomplished what I couldn't.... she has given voice in her novel to Frida's inner mind, the pain that demonized her life, and her resilience and overall strength of will to carry on when others would have shriveled up in a corner in the fetal position and cried "enough!" Drakulic's uncompromising novel, caressingly tender at times, searingly blunt at other times, focuses on Frida's last day, her dying thoughts, the poignant memories of her life, her family and her love for Diego Rivera, the "Maestro" of Mexico, and her lovers, including Tolstoy. Yes, this is a work of fiction. Even so, I felt that Drakulic did an amazing job conveying the chronic pain Frida endured, at six when she was struck with polio and the pain that would follow her through the rest of her life after surviving a bus/trolley car accident in her late teens that resulted in a broken spinal column, collarbone, ribs, pelvis, eleven fractures to her right leg and impalement by a broken handrail. The impalement is just too horrific to go into here. The memories told in the story have a candid, reflective quality to them. Interspersed in the story are descriptions of some of Frida's portraits/paintings. I enjoyed reading the book and viewing Frida's art, and in particular her various self portraits, in a whole new light. A truly amazing, brilliant mosaic of Frida's life. This book touched me deeply as I am nearing the end of my life as a result of metstatic cancer. I am also bipolar and have dealt with thoughts of suicide, depression and mania. It's not a pretty book to read if you've not come to some acceptance of your terminal condition, but I see it as a good choice for people who've come to terms with death. I intend to share it with my counselor in hopes that she can use it for others like myself. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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A beautifully imagined story of the last days of Frida Kahlo's life A few days before Frida Kahlo's death in 1954, she wrote in her diary, ?I hope the exit is joyful'and I hope never to return.' Diagnosed with polio at the age of six and plagued by illness and injury throughout her life, Kahlo's chronic pain was a recurrent theme in her extraordinary art. In Frida's Bed, Slavenka Drakulic´ explores the inner life of one of the world's most influential female artists, skillfully weaving Frida's memories into descriptions of her paintings, producing a meditation on the nature of chronic pain and creativity. With an intriguing subject whose unusual life continues to fascinate, this poignant imagining of Kahlo's thoughts during her final hours by another daringly original and uncompromising creative talent will attract readers of literary fiction and art lovers alike. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was a well-known self-taught Mexican artist:
[She] painted many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. Inspired by the country's popular culture, she employed a naïve folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society. Her paintings often had strong autobiographical elements and mixed realism with fantasy. In addition to belonging to the post-revolutionary Mexicayotl movement, which sought to define a Mexican identity, Kahlo has been described as a surrealist or magical realist.
Kahlo's work has been celebrated internationally as emblematic of Mexican national and Indigenous traditions, and by feminists for what is seen as its uncompromising depiction of the female experience and form. (Wikipedia, viewed 7/3/18, edited to remove hyperlinks).
Drakulić, however, explores the relationship between Kahlo's physical suffering and her art. Kahlo was disabled by childhood polio and then by an horrific accident when she was a teenager. She endured numerous operations and suffered constant pain throughout her life - but in this novel she is shown to have transcended the limitations of her body through courage and endurance that is more commonly ascribed to men.
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