这部小说主要是从伦敦一位年轻、有抱负的作家和剧作家的叙述者的角度来写的。某些章节完全由其他人物的故事组成,而叙述者从记忆中回忆(选择性地编辑或阐述对话的某些方面,尤其是思特里克兰德的,因为叙述者说思特里克兰德的语言表达能力很差)。文中的主人公先是在文学聚会上结识了思特里克兰德的妻子,后来又遇到了思特里克兰德本人。思特里克兰德本人似乎是个平凡的商人,对他妻子的文学或艺术兴趣不大。
Strickland is a well-off, middle-class stockbroker in London sometime in late 19th or early 20th century. Early in the novel, he leaves his wife and children and goes to Paris. He lives a destitute but defiantly content life there as a painter, lodging in run-down hotels and falling prey to both illness and hunger. Strickland, in his drive to express through his art what appears to continually possess and compel him on the inside, cares nothing for physical discomfort and is indifferent to his surroundings. He is helped and supported by a commercially successful but hackneyed Dutch painter, Dirk Stroeve, who recognises Strickland's genius as a painter. After helping Strickland recover from a life-threatening illness, Stroeve is repaid by having his wife, Blanche, abandon him for Strickland. Strickland later discards the wife; all he really sought from Blanche was a model to paint, not serious companionship, and it is hinted in the novel's dialogue that he indicated this to her and she took the risk anyway. Blanche then commits suicide – yet another human casualty in Strickland's single-minded pursuit of art and beauty; the first casualties being his own established life and those of his wife and children.
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