![]() Gauguin lived there about a decade or two before Maugham, but surely Paris of the 1910s and 20s was a hotbed of artists, painters and writers, who were finding a way to express themselves, struggling to stay alive. It is more likely that the novel contains a mixture of elements which Somerset Maugham was able to observe and absorb in the artistic milieu of the first quarter of the twentieth century, particularly in Paris. There is no need to look into Gauguin's life. ![]() ![]() The moon and sixpence is a novel about artistic genius: it aims to show rather than tell what true genius is.The novel is said to be loosely based on the life of Paul Gauguin, but this is really rather immaterial and unimportant. ![]()
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