Description: Inspired by the famous composer’s notebooks, this biographical novel offers “a perfect portrait of an irascible genius” and “revelatory fossils of the last year of Beethoven’s anguished life” (Edmund White) Deaf as he was, Beethoven had to be addressed in writing, and he was always accompanied by a notebook in which people could scribble questions and comments. In a tour de force fiction invention, Conversations with Beethoven 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. A fully fleshed and often very funny portrait of Beethoven emerges. He struggles with his music and with his health; he argues with and insults just about everyone. Most of all, he worries about his wayward—and beloved—nephew Karl.
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Book Title: Conversations with Beethoven
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
Publication Year: 2014
Topic: Literary, Biographical
Item Height: 0.7 in
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 10.8 Oz
Author: Sanford Friedman
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.2 in
Book Series: Nyrb Classics Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
