I Always Loved You
A Story of Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas
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نقد و بررسی
December 9, 2013
In her second novel, Oliveira (My Name Is Mary Sutter) expertly draws us into the life of another famous Mary—this time in 1877 Paris, where a revolution is underway in the art world, as a few renegade painters snub (and are snubbed by) the juried exhibitions at the Paris Salon, which were then organized by the Académie des Beaux-Arts. American painter Mary Cassatt has just moved to the City of Light, not to fall in love, but to pursue her dream of becoming an artist, and she longs to get the academy’s stamp of approval. But a chance meeting with Edgar Degas, one of the leading impressionist-era rebels, changes the course of her career and life. Though it’s never been proven that the two painters were lovers, Oliveira explores the next 40 turbulent years of their relationship, and what might have been, crafting a tale of inspiration, desire, and restraint between two great artists of the 19th century.
Robin Oliveira recreates the era of the Belle poque, imagining the intertwining lives of artists Mary Cassatt and Edgar Degas. Narrator Mozhan Marno quietly demonstrates perfect pronunciation of French places and names. Cassatt was unlike all the other artists of the period--an American and a woman, and an unmarried one at that. Professionally, Degas was Cassatt's mentor. But personally? Oliveira imagines what their forty-year association might have been. Marno gently renders the complicated inner life of Cassatt with her difficult and unwell family, professional anxiety, and, especially, occasional romance and frequent infuriation with Degas. Marno distinguishes Degas by adopting a light French accent, but it's still difficult to keep straight all the other famous characters--Morisot, Manet, Monet, Zola, and Abigail May Alcott--who populate the story. A.B. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine
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