Unendlicher Spass Waggish - David Auerbach on literature, philosophy, film, etc. Writers No One Reads This guest post on Clamenç Llansana (Louis Boone) is taken from the introduction of Kit Schluter’s translation of Goliard Songs, which is available as a free pdf at Anomalous Press. Certain artists specialize in the art of being overlooked. In using the word overlooked, I am not thinking of artists who have fallen into obscurity after death, having enjoyed the satisfaction of minor prominence during their lives, or even those who seek recognition only to see it deferred during their lifetimes, but those of whom the general public remains entirely unaware, whose work is known only by family members and, at its furthest reaches, a very select coterie of friends. Widely known examples of this strange lot are difficult to conjure, for these names do not belong to the public domain, but instead to the introverted storybooks of families and communities bound by esoteric practices, the research of obscurantists and eccentrics, and the caprices of folklore.
W ? O ? S BOOKS Literature, science,. or ebooks HolyBooks.com – download free ebooks Music in literature - Features - Books The idea for my book Rites of Spring struck me during a performance of Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of Spring. With terrifying energy, it portrays a ritual in which a prehistoric tribe forces a young girl to dance herself to death, a human sacrifice to ensure the return of spring. Well, families are today's tribes; and when emotional winter sets in, children suffer most.In my novel, a young girl with balletic aspirations, Liffy, begins to starve herself when her parents' marriage crumbles. She is virtually trying to dance herself to death to save her tribe. I've no idea whether the galvanising power of music shines out from the background of my tale as I'd intended. But I do know that this book wouldn't have existed without it, so it seems a good time to look at some of the musical fiction on the shelf - much of it distinctly intimidating. Leo Tolstoy The Kreutzer Sonata No other writer has latched on to the sexual power of music quite as astutely as Tolstoy. Ivan Turgenev Swann's Way