Summary 5

After his wife died Dirk, heartbroken, forever leaving home to Holland. Strickland came in narrator’s home and told him that as soon as he got tired of writing naked Blanche (he used it as a free nudes), he left her. Blanche could not return to her husband, as poisonous Strickland said, unable to forgive his victims that he brought (Blanche was governess seduced her son of the owner, and when it was discovered that she was pregnant, her kicked out, she tried to kill herself, then something Stroeve and married her.) When at last the narrator shows Strickland his paintings, they make it a strong and strange impression. They feel incredible effort to express something, the desire to get rid of the force, the owner of the artist - as if he knew the soul of the universe and must put it into his paintings. When fate throws the narrator to Tahiti, where Strickland spent the last years of his life, he asks about the artist of all who knew him. He told how Strickland, no money, no job, hungry, and he lived in a doss house in Marseilles, as using false documents to escape the vengeance of a Shrew Bill was employed on a ship going to Australia, as in Tahiti worked on a plantation overseer. The inhabitants of the island, during the life of a vagabond who thought it was not interested in his "pictures" very much regret that once missed the opportunity to buy paintings for pennies, now facing a lot of money. Old Tahitian, hostess hotel, home to the narrator, told him how she found Strickland wife - a native Ata, his distant relative. Immediately after the wedding Strickland and Ata went into the forest, where Ata was a small piece of land, and the following three years were the happiest of the artist's life. Ata did not bother him, did what he told me, grow up their children.

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