Thirst for Life

Vincent Van Gogh was a genius madman who experienced both contempt from art critics and total misunderstanding from his fellow artists during his lifetime, and after his death was recognized as a great artist.
His manner of painting seemed strange and absurd even to the residents of Montmartre, who were accustomed to creative experiments. He was either indifferently rejected or cynically used by women. His friends mocked him. His relatives pitied him…
It is Van Gogh who is the subject of the most famous biographical novel by Irving Stone, which has gone through over 30 editions in his native language and has been translated into 30 foreign languages. In the process of writing it, Stone, by his own words, "walked through the south of France, lived in the psychiatric hospital where Van Gogh was placed, and finally slept in the very same room and on the same bed in a small hotel in Auvers on the anniversary of his death"…