Winter route
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Winter route
9.99 €
What are the dreams of someone who has not received a letter in prison for twelve years? What wisdom lurks in books that no one has read? What fates collapse on the graves of famous composers? What music is heard by a murderer, what music is heard by a madman, what music is heard by someone who no longer wants to be or can no longer be a great musician? There will be frustrated pianists who are not afraid to disappoint the public, heartless crooks and incorrigible music lovers, hitmen and cuckolds, one heroic horse, Vatican functionaries, elusive love, as well as Johann Sebastian Bach, who wrote the impossible "Counterpoint," Franz Schubert, whose "Winter Road" cycle permeates this book from beginning to end, and the great Rembrandt, who created a portrait of a remarkable destiny. Amsterdam, Vienna, Treblinka, Paris and Oslo, Catalonia and Israel, the Vatican and Bosnia; century number XVII, XX, XXI are intermingled and the brighter, the more deceptively shimmering. Jaume Cabré (b. 1947) is the biggest star of Catalan literature, winner of numerous awards; his books have been translated into dozens of languages, their circulation exceeds one million copies. His collection The Winter Road, which won the prestigious Catalan literary prize Crítica Serra d'Or (2001), is the story of desperate and sometimes despairing people who sing their own songs at the top of their voices, or to themselves, or even behind the scenes, and everything sounds like a polyphonic canon, an incredible counterpoint, a bow to Bach, Schubert, an impossible music that no one but Cabré will write.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series The Big Affair (slim format)