Blue Self-Portrait
ISBN-13: 9780993009365
Author(s): Noemi Lefebvre
Subjects: FYT
Publisher: Les Fugitives Ltd
Publisher Imprint: Les Fugitives Ebook
Publication Date: 01-06-2019
Format: Ebook
Availability: In stock
£8.25
About the book
A French woman haunted by her encounter with an American-German pianist-composer who is obsessed with Arnold Schoenberg's portrait, flies home with her lively sister and a volume of Adorno's letters to Thomas Mann. While the impossible heroine unpicks her social failures the pianist reaches towards a musical self-portrait with all the resonance of Schoenberg's passionate, chilling blue. A novel of angst and high farce, Blue Self-Portrait unfolds among Berlin's cultural institutions but is more truly located in the mid-air flux between contrary impulses to remember and to ignore.