The Night Café is located in the town of Arles, France. In 1888, Vincent Van Gogh moved to Arles from Paris to paint the beautiful landscape. Some of his well-known works from Arles were Sunflowers and Trees in Bloom. One night, he decided to paint the inside of an Arles Café and called the work The Night Café. The book Night Café is a fact-based fiction about what happened to him while painting his famous work. Night Café is filled with illusions and trips into Van Gogh’s unfortunate mental state at that time of his life. Some people have blamed his bizarre behavior on his consumption of both artist paint and absinthe. A better explanation may be in an quote from Van Gogh himself in a letter to his brother, Theo, on September 9, 1888: “In my picture of the Night Café, I have tried to express the idea that the café is a place where one can ruin oneself, go mad or commit a crime. So I have tried to express the Powers of darkness.” Soon after, the artist went mad, cutting off his ear for a local prostitute. Perhaps his ruin was the prompting of the devil.