Title: Rhapsody on a single theme
Author: Claudio Morandini
Publisher: Manni
268 pp
€ 18.00
Music as a leitmotif of many lives, loves that - Fund - have a bit 'the same face, no matter how many wrinkles the solchino. Music as a first cause and ultimate cause, engine, accelerator and brake.
1996. The American composer Ethan Prescott ventures into the cold Russia, to meet the venerable master Rafail Dvoinikov. Reason his departure is the dream of creating a monumental essay on the life and works of the Soviet Union, almost unknown to aspiring American musicians.
Rhapsody on a single theme - alluding to one of the most representative of the old scores Dvoinikov - ranges from diary entries, snippets of conversations, personal notes, eighteenth-century writings, biographies of other authors. This variety of genres combined with the variety of the plot, which interweaves different reasons: under the dialogues between the young composer and the great master - who, in their richness of content, ranging from the life of the music scene Dvoinikov Soviet years' 50, strongly influenced by pressure from the Stalinist regime - the windows are placed very personal life of Ethan Prescott.
A non-fiction novel written as a piano played by a skilled composer.
a text which, despite the many technicalities of music, is left to drain and tested in all its notes, almost as if a constant melody - sometimes gentle, sometimes more bitter - cot reading.
A game of Chinese boxes, with stories inside stories about other stories that, eventually, they give us the sense of a pending unresolved.
" Words have their own concrete, if put together may cause damage, disaster, or at least misunderstanding. The notes, however, merely abstract, and most people are like a melodious and incomprehensible language spoken by a small group of tourists behind us we enjoy the syllables, we sense the structure, we suspect a grammar, but not we understand its meaning. "
Anna Ragosta,
The reading corner
[Source: www.librincircolo.it]
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