Mysterious Mozart
Publisher
:
Plon
Parution date
:
2001
EAN
:
9782259191067
Description
Blending philosophical, psychoanalytical and personal remarks with elements of biography and an analysis of Mozart’s music, Sollers reveals in Mystérieux Mozart little-known aspects of the genius composer’s life. Mozart’s unfinished Requiem initiates Sollers’ reflections and leads him to study the mind of the Maestro. Basing his work on period correspondence, Sollers unveils Mozart’s relationship with institutional and religious power, women (especially his wife Constance of whom he was enamoured), as well as his passion for foreign languages. With musicality and wit, he also uncovers Mozart’s fears, nostalgia, exile, jealousy and faith. Mystérieux Mozart is vivid biographical essay which reads like a novel.
Author
Philippe Sollers : Philippe Sollers is a writer, editor, and critic of whom Philip Roth has said: "Anybody out for a good time should read Philippe Sollers. He's the sort of intellectual clown we don't breed in America--urbane, bestial, candid, effervescent, an irrepressible ejaculator of farcical wisdom, a master of good-natured malice, a kind of happy, lively, benign Celine." Of Sollers’ many previous books, those currently available in English include Watteau in Venice (Scribner's, 1994), Event(Red Dust, 1987), and Women (Columbia UP, 1990). He makes his home in Paris where he lives with his wife Julia Kristeva.
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