Lucien (Mirbeau)


Lucien is one of the central fictional characters in the novel Dans le ciel, by French writer Octave Mirbeau.

The tragedy of an artist

He is the friend of the embedded narrator, Georges, to whom he has bequeathed his house, situated on a fantastic mountain peak that rises vertiginously into the sky. Lucien is modeled on Vincent van Gogh, whose paintings The Irises and ''Sunflowers |The Sunflowers