巴黎之章结束之后,故事继续在塔希提岛展开。此时,思特里克兰德已经去世了,而叙述者试图从别人的回忆中拼凑出他在那里的生活。他发现思特里克兰德在那里娶了一个本地女人,和她生了两个孩子,但其中一个已经死了。我们知道,思特里克兰德在去塔希提岛之前,曾在法国马赛港住过一段时间。他在塔希提岛住了几年,后来他死于麻风病。思特里克兰德留下了许多画,但是他在患麻风病失明之前在他的小屋里的墙上所画的巨著,在他死后被他的妻子按照他临终前的嘱咐烧掉了。
The Moon and Sixpence is not, of course, a life of Paul Gauguin in the form of fiction. It is founded on what I had heard about him, but I used only the main facts of his story and for the rest trusted to such gifts of invention as I was fortunate enough to possess.
当然,《月亮和六便士》并不是保罗·高更真实生活的小说版。它是建立在我所听到的关于他的事情的基础上的,但是我只使用了他故事的主要事实,其余的都是我有幸拥有的发明创造的天赋。
Writing in 1953, Maugham describes the idea for the book arising during a year that he spent living in Paris in 1904: "...I met men who had known him and worked with him at Pont-Aven. I heard much about him. It occurred to me that there was in what I was told the subject of a novel". The idea remained in his mind for ten years, until a visit to Tahiti in 1914, where Maugham was able to meet people who had known Gauguin, inspired him to start writing.
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