Word: gaudier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have probably heard little if anything of Henri Gaudier; you have doubtless heard nothing at all of Sophie Brzeska (pronounced "B'jeska"). After reading Savage Messiah you will wonder...
Death, as to many a young soldier, came to Henri Gaudier in 1915, when he was 23. He was good at fighting and had risen to be a sergeant. Far from being a professional soldier, he was an artist, a radical who had left France to escape his military service. But he was a whole-hogger: when he did anything he did it like St. Michael chasing Lucifer from heaven...
...Gaudier's father was a carpenter who was pleased when his son won scholarships, not so pleased when the scholarship led to garrety art instead of clerkly business. At the Paris library where Henri studied in the evenings he met a gaunt Polish woman of 38, Sophie Brzeska; talked to her hungrily, fell in love. He was 18. Sophie believed she was destined to be a great writer, but she had had nothing but hard knocks. Her family joined the majority of her acquaintance in disliking her. She had been as far as the U. S. (as a governess...