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The goldfinch author donna5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() Chekhov created a similar feeling of familiarity by producing empathy with characters who audiences felt spoke their hearts. Answer: she has a feeling for connection and place that creates a mythic New York City neighborhood somewhere between Upper East Side aristocracy and West Village bohemia that readers from nowhere in particular may easily call their own. ![]() But what can we say about the sensibility of an author who writes a novel based on a sui generis work by a l7th century painter, Carel Fabritius, at the same time naming its central character after the brother of a famous post-Impressionist painter? Theo Van Gogh was an art dealer and Tartt's hero, Theo Decker, the possessor of a stolen masterpiece, finds himself dealing in art. ![]() Donna Tartt's The Goldfinch has its admirers and detractors. ![]()
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