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Conversations with Beethoven

By Beethoven , Ludwig van; Friedman , Sanford

Book information

Publisher
New York Review Books
Year
2014
ISBN
978-1-59017-762-4, 1590177622, 978-1-59017-788-4
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2145500 bytes)
Series
New York Review Books classics
Pages
285\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
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Description

Just before his death, Sanford Friedman completed this, his final novel, something entirely different from anything he, or for that matter anyone, had written before - Conversations with Beethoven, a moving meditation on greatness and pettiness, vulnerability and genius, that is as elegiac as it is witty and engaging. Abstract: Conversations with Beethoven, in a tour de force of fictional invention, tells the story of the last year of Beethoven's life almost entirely through such notebook entries: Friends, family, students, doctors, and others attend to the volatile Maestro, whose sometimes unpredictable and often very loud replies we infer. Read more...

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