The short, obscure, and prolific life of the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907), a significant figure in modernism.First published in France in 2016, Being Here Is So Much traces the short, obscure, and prolific life of the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907). In a brief career, cut short by her death from an embolism at the age of thirty-one, shortly after she gave birth to a child, Modersohn-Becker trained in Germany, traveled often to Paris, developed close friendships with the sculptor Clara Westhoff and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and became one of her generation's preeminent artists, helping introduce modernity to the twentieth century alongside such other painters as Picasso and Matisse.Marie Darrieussecq's triumphant and illuminating biography at once revives Modersohn-Becker's reputation as a significant figure...
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Marie Darrieussecq har i boken Härligt är att leva här gjort något storartat, tycker jag. Hennes lilla tunna och fantastiska bok fångar inte bara Paula Modersohn- Beckers allt för korta liv, och hennes väg för att bli konstnär, utan sätter också in berättelsen i ett historiskt, politiskt perspektiv.
