Dreaming of the Sun. Letters 1883–1890

The letters of Vincent van Gogh are an amazing document, attracting deserved interest and admiration from readers for a hundred years since their first publication. This is a rare case where literary talent, originality of character, and depth of the author are supplemented by truly dramatic turns of his biography reflected in these personal texts. The biography is legendary—just like everything associated with the name of Vincent van Gogh.


The total volume of the correspondence that has survived to this day is enormous—820 letters. We present to the reader the first volume of a two-volume anthology—the most complete one available in Russian to date, which includes a third of the total number of Vincent van Gogh's letters. All letters are published without edits and translated anew from the original facsimile; a number of letters are published in Russian for the first time.


The second volume includes letters dated 1883–1890, in which the artist formulates his life and artistic views, reflecting significant events in his life and creativity: his move to Paris, and then to Arles, the work on the works that would soon bring him fame.