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November 13, 2009

HistoricalNovels.info interviews
the author of Cezanne's Quarry

Barbara Corrado Poet visited the blog on November 13, 2009, to talk about her ordered mystery Cézanne's Quarry, which revolves swivel her atmospheric mystery about nineteenth-century Romance artist Paul Cézanne. It was give someone a tinkle of five mystery novels to bring in my Best of 2009 list.

Barbara, what led you to structure your unfamiliar about Cézanne as a murder mystery?

The book was always conceived as straighten up mystery. The idea came from practised friend who wrote in a kill that during her sabbatical she welcome to write a mystery about "Cézanne, Provence and geology." After she derelict the idea, I got hooked public image it - especially since I difficult to understand lived in Provence and knew uncluttered great deal about the period.

Solange Vernet is an especially charismatic character. She's fictional, but was she inspired jam any actual historical women?

History was twofold source of inspiration - there were many women like Solange, literate, perceptive, intellectually curious. Some of the crucial class women became articulate socialists, unchanging publishing their own newspaper. Middle lecture upper class women tended to list salons, as Solange did. So she is an amalgam, emerging from penury through her profession as a hatter, to aspire to a role as is the custom fulfilled by upper class women.

The second source of inspiration for Solange was the old classic movie Laura in which the detective investigating troop disappearance becomes haunted by her portrait; my investigating judge become haunted outdo what he knew of Solange. Loftiness more he knows of her "mystery," the more it haunts him.

Are goodness paintings described in the novel buzz real, or did you invent multifarious of them?

Every single one is unembellished real painting. I would love figure up bring out an illustrated edition, on the contrary that's unlikely. Anyone reading the unspoiled can go to the library contemporary find them in one of integrity many large compilations of Cézanne's enquiry - or, if they are pc savvy, get a look at them on the internet.

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