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发表于2024-08-26
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With "humanism, generosity, and a passionate, beating heart" (The Times, London), Janice Galloway s Clara reignites, from between the lines of history, the great love of Robert and Clara Schumann. In her lifetime, Clara was a celebrated concert pianist and composer, editor and teacher, friend of Brahms -- as well as mother of the eight Schumann children and caretaker of her husband through a series of crippling mental illnesses. In its luminous integrity the novel brings Clara Schumann to life as a woman of genius. Galloway is at once a meticulous researcher of her subjects remarkable and highly dramatic artistic careers and a virtuoso storyteller whose imagination and empathy lead her to that place off limits to history and biography -- inside the human mind. Distilling the memories, poetry, and musical notes therein, she examines the ways artists divine patterns out of life s chaos. "Passion," writes Galloway of Clara s performance philosophy, "one might take for granted -- its control is the mechanism through which all else flows." Though music may have bent to Clara s will, love served her far more tragically. Dismissing the clichés of Great Art and rejecting the romantic conflation of Madness and Creativity, Clara boldly ventures that in a life marred by alienation and isolation, "Work alone endures."
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Clara : A Novel 在线电子书 pdf 下载 txt下载 epub 下载 mobi 下载 2024