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Philippe Sollers - Mysterious Mozart - 9780252035463 - V9780252035463
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Mysterious Mozart

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Description for Mysterious Mozart Hardback. Offers a direct interpretation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's oeuvre and lasting mystique, audaciously reformulated for the postmodern age. This book explores themes of constancy, prodigy, freedom, and religion. It offers up bits of his own history, revealing his affinity for the creative geniuses of the eighteenth century. Translator(s): Mortimer, Armine Kotin. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: AVGC4; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 416.

Both a beguiling portrait of the artist and an idiosyncratic self-portrait of the author, Mysterious Mozart is Philippe Sollers's alternately oblique and searingly direct interpretation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's oeuvre and lasting mystique, audaciously reformulated for the postmodern age.

With a mix of slang, abstractions, quotations, first- and third-person narratives, and blunt opinion, French writer and critic Philippe Sollers taps into Mozart's playful correspondence and the lesser-known pieces of his enormous repertoire to analyze the popularity and public perceptions of his music. Detailing Mozart's drive to continue producing masterpieces even when saddled with debt and riddled with illness and anxiety, Sollers ... Read more

As Sollers explores themes of constancy, prodigy, freedom, and religion, he offers up bits of his own history, revealing his affinity for the creative geniuses of the eighteenth century and a yearning to bring that era's utopian freedom to life in contemporary times. What emerges is an inimitable portrait of a man and a musician whose greatest gift is a quirky companionability, a warm and mysterious appeal that distinguishes Mozart from other great composers and is brilliantly echoed by Sollers's artful tangle of narrative.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252035463
SKU
V9780252035463
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About Philippe Sollers
Philippe Sollers is a French biographer, editor, critic, and novelist whose work includes books on Dante, Willem De Kooning, Pablo Picasso, and Giacomo Casanova. He is a cofounder of the avant-garde journal Tel Quel and the founder of L'Infini. Armine Kotin Mortimer is a professor of French at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Writing Realism: Representations ... Read more

Reviews for Mysterious Mozart
"A good read from a highly published and interesting thinker who loves Mozart's music."
Journal of Austrian Studies "A most intriguing alternative, in content and method, to almost all other recent books on Mozart.  Highly recommended."
Choice "A journey of fanciful discovery. . . . Opinionated and laden with insights."
Opera News "Philippe Sollers is a mercurial personality and a leading controversial figure ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Mysterious Mozart


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