Symphony

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Macmillan, 10. 12. 2007 - 374 strán (strany)

In 1827 Harriet Smithson, a beautiful and talented young Irish actress, makes an unusual decision. Determined to avoid the traditional route to stardom via the manager’s bed, she joins an English company in the bold experiment of taking Shakespeare to Paris.

With the ferment of revolution in the air, the new generation is longing for a novel kind of passionate, spontaneous art. And to Harriet’s astonishment, it is embodied in her---La Belle Irlandaise. In the midst of this frenzy she finds herself pursued by a strange, intense young composer named Hector Berlioz. So begins a painful and profound love affair. She is his muse, his idée fixe, his obsession; and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, directly inspired by Harriet, will change music forever.

Symphony is an audacious, brilliant, and haunting novel, set against a background of nineteenth-century theatre, Romantic art, music, and revolutionary Europe. But at its heart lies the story of two lives transfigured and destroyed by genius, inspiration, and madness.

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Stať 1
1
Stať 2
9
Stať 3
42
Stať 4
59
Stať 5
91
Stať 6
92
Stať 7
127
Stať 8
149
Stať 13
236
Stať 14
263
Stať 15
271
Stať 16
299
Stať 17
323
Stať 18
333
Stať 19
357
Stať 20
362

Stať 9
164
Stať 10
178
Stať 11
185
Stať 12
203
Stať 21
373
Stať 22
Stať 23
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O tomto autorovi (2007)

Jude Morgan, who studied writing with Malcolm Bradbury and Angela Carter, lives in Peterborough, England.

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