I'd highly recommend The Moon and Sixpence to anyone, particularly those struggling with the dichotomy between great art produced by a less-than-great human being. Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why? In the end they get you, and you are helpless in their hands. "Of course, it is one of the most absurd illusions of Christianity that they have souls. You can treat them like dogs, you can beat them till your arm aches, and still they love you." He shrugged his shoulders. Warning too: it's pretty sexist - one example, "Women are strange little beasts. I'd recommend it if you like Somerset Maugham, which I do, even though he was somewhat of an old lady in temperament. Maugham's interesting study based on the life of the painter Paul Gauguin is partly a mockery of society's willingness to turn sinners into saints and partly a sober look at the artist's lifelong pursuit of "beauty" and its costs to both himself/herself and to loved ones. Ultimately, he moves to Tahiti to live, paint masterpieces, marry a young native girl and die a leper. Roman a clef-abominable french artist Paul GauguinĪ dreadful misogynist who left his wife and 3 kids without remorse or a smidgen of regret in his mid-40s to pursue the painter's life in Paris, stole the wife of another painter who committed suicide when he rejected her as no longer necessary.
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