Zhazhda zhizni - Stoun Irving

Vincent Van Gog - a brilliant madman, during his life experienced both the contempt of the critics of painting, and a complete misunderstanding of fellow brush, and after his death recognized as a great artist.
His manner of writing seemed strange and absurd even accustomed to creative experiments inhabitants of Montmartre. It was either indifferently rejected or cynically used by women. His friends laughed at him. His family felt sorry for him...
It is Van Gog dedicated to the most famous biographical novel by Irving Stone, which withstood more than 30 editions only in his native language and was translated into 30 foreign languages. In the process of his creation, Stone, in his own words, "walked through the south of France, lived in a psychiatric hospital, where Van Gogh was placed, and finally slept in the same room and on the same bed in a small hotel in Overa on the anniversary of his death"...