Status Updates From Wild Thing A Life of Paul G...

Is it to excuse or set in its place in time? Or both? Just how male gaze, western gaze is all consuming in its obsessive expression and desire. I feel it while being uncomfortable and caught up in it.

A book drenched in sensuality and what is it priapratic intensity. The mentions of both child and adult sex workers. Aline his mother being sexually abuse by father pursued by men, now the mistress of a rich dude. Setting up the context of what Gauguin did.

DNF. Stopped by one third. The life stories of his mother and maternal grandmother are so dramatic that, IMO, each can make easily a good romance of 300 pages.