- Paperback: 96 pages
- Publisher: Dover Publications; New edition edition (Jun 1 1985)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0486248593
- ISBN-13: 978-0486248592
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.7 x 0.7 cm
- Shipping Weight: 136 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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#581,018 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #5 in Books > Arts & Photography > Artists, A-Z > ( G-I ) > Gauguin, Paul
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Impressions from two years in Tahiti. Compelling autobiographical fragment. 24 black-and-white illustrations.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
It's actually an experimental novel,
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This review is from: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal (Paperback)
Typically considered a journal or memoir, Gauguin's book is in fact an early type of experimental multimedia novel. Thematically, Gauguin burlesques Pierre Loti's "Marriage of Loti", while structurally he interleaves narrative with his own highly-inventive Post-impressionist woodcarvings. It's a fine book: Gauguin could have been a great novelist, if he weren't already busy.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Unique Opportunity,
By Stephanie Rose Bird "conjurer2" (Chicago, IL) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal (Paperback)
Though you may quarrel with Guaguin tactics or motivations, his art stands alone--brilliant, moving, subtle. It is always intriquing to hear the voice of a master painter and "Noa, Noa," affords that opportunity.
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Noa Noa,
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This review is from: Noa Noa: The Tahitian Journal (Paperback)
Contemplations visual, intellectual and spiritual. In 1891, French painter Paul Gauguin fled to the island of Tahiti - "a sixty-three days' voyage, sixty-three days of feverish expactancy;" begun as an unofficial visit regarding the imminent death of the island's king Pomare -- and resulting in a profoundly moving sea-change (spirit, observation, happiness). The Tahitian theology, natural history, and especially the progress of his relationships - a gift.This is a good book to read BEFORE embarking on your "desert island" voyage, but beware! Hard to top once you're there on some other island. An exceptional journal, with a graceful translation (it seems) by O. F. Theis from the French. Rated 9 (needs more color plates of paintings! but a lovely, portable paper edition) Other recommended travel/discovery books: Off the Map: Bicycling Across Siberia, by Mark Jenkins. 1993 HarperPerennial pb. Letters from Iceland, by W. H. Auden & Louis MacNeice. 1990 Paragon House pb. Why Come To Slaka? by Malcolm Bradbury. 1991 Penguin Books pb. Travels With Lizbeth (writing/homelessness), by Lars Eighner. The Starship & the Canoe (Freeman Dyson & son George) Bird of Jove (falconry), by David Bruce. 1994 Texas A&M pb. The Earthsea Trilogy, by Ursula K. Le Guin Ishi (anthropology/Native American history), by Theodora Kroeber
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