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A Musical Offering Luis Sagasti

A Musical Offering von Luis Sagasti

A Musical Offering Luis Sagasti


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Zusammenfassung

Sagasti narrates for us a thousand and one stories centre around music that take the reader from Bach to Gould, from Gould to the Beatles, from Sergeant Pepper to the music that was played in Nazi concentration camps, and so on.. But when do we end a story? When do we decide to sing the final lullaby?

A Musical Offering Zusammenfassung

A Musical Offering Luis Sagasti

A lyrical celebration of storytelling, of childhood, and of the transformative power of music.

Tracing a circular course that echoes Bach's Goldberg Variations , Luis Sagasti's second book to appear in English takes the guise of a musical scheherazade, recounting story after story, vibrating to celestial harmonies. From the music born of the sun to the music sent into space on the Voyager mission, from Rothko to rock music, from the composers of the concentration camps to a weeping room for Argentinian conscripts in the Falklands, A Musical Offering traverses the shifting sands of fiction and history.

A Musical Offering Bewertungen

Society of Authors Valle-Inclan Prize (Winner)
Republic of Consciousness Prize (Shortlist)

Fluidity, charm, emotion and disarming brushes of grace. -The Wall Street Journal

A bewitching suite of stories about music, heard and unheard. -The Arts Desk

A beautiful, fragmentary rendition which never strikes a false note. -Irish Times

A Musical Offering is less an attempt to write about music than to actually write music - using words as a new kind of notation. -Will Ashon , author of CHAMBER MUSIC and STRANGE LABYRINTH

The literary equivalent of a symphony. -Books and Bao

Sagasti handles his elements masterfully, subtly and dexterously weaves new threads into his tapestry. -BookBlast

A work of immense complexity, great balance and extraordinary beauty. -The Monthly Booking

Sagasti manages to create a world rich in illuminations and philosophical reflections. -Morning Star

Sagasti's careful contrapuntal construction weaves together an eclectic range of vignettes which transcend their parts, leaving an indelible emotional impact that defies rationalisation. -Gutter Magazine

I have gained knowledge I didn't know I needed. -Joyzine

A veritable fugue of insights and literary forms, subtlety and humour. -Asymptote

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Praise for Luis Sagasti

Society of Authors TA First Translation Prize (Shortlist)

A subtle marvel...a nimble writer who merits wider readership in English. -Kirkus

A genre-defying collection of associative musings on art, music, philosophy, and literature. -Publishers Weekly

Innovative, playful, and beautifully executed. -Carlos Fonseca , author of COLONEL LAGRIMAS

Simply genius. -Enrique Vila-Matas , author of DUBLINESQUE

A work of wonderful analogies and disparate historical footnotes. -Morning Star

Like Borges before him, Sagasti has produced a rare thing: a work of fiction as learned as it is fun. -Gary M. Perry, Foyles Charing Cross

Sagasti produces here a magnificent constellation of stories, and in doing so pays tribute to art. -Fnac

One hundred pages of pure intelligence, to be enjoyed listening to Sun Ra. -L'Arbre Vengeur

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Über Luis Sagasti

Luis Sagasti , a writer, lecturer and art critic, was born in Bahia Blanca, Argentina in 1963. The author of five novels, including Fireflies (known in Spanish as Bellas Artes, 2011) and A Musical Offering (Una Ofrenda Musical, 2017), he's just about to publish his most recent book, comprised entirely of footnotes.

Fionn Petch is a Scottish-born translator. He lived in Mexico City for 12 years, where he completed a PhD in Philosophy at the UNAM, and now lives in Berlin. His translations of Latin American literature for Charco Press have been widely acclaimed. Fireflies by Luis Sagasti was shortlisted for the Translators' Association First Translation Award 2018. The Distance Between Us by Renato Cisneros received an English PEN Award in 2018. A Musical Offering , also by Luis Sagasti, was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2021 and won the UK Society of Authors Premio Valle Inclan 2021 for best translation from Spanish.

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR011314366
9781999368456
1999368452
A Musical Offering Luis Sagasti
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
Charco Press
20200721
117
N/A
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