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The Bath Fugues is a meditation on melancholy and art, in the form of three interwoven novellas, centred respectively on an ageing art forger; a Portuguese poet, opium addict and art collector; and a doctor, who has built an art gallery in tropical Queensland. These characters are tied by more than their art, each dealing with questions of deception and discovery, counterfeiting and rewriting, transmission and identity and each stretching the bonds of trust and friendship.… (mais)
A high 3 stars, although with reluctance. Castro is a fascinating transformational artist of the literary form but I’m not 100% sure all of his theories hold up under close interrogation. Either way, The Bath Fugues is difficult, and Castro has no qualms about admitting that in interviews. This is not really storytelling, nor is it literature. It’s perhaps a novel but more accurately a book.
If you don’t like such semantic discussions, you won’t like this. On the other hand, if you enjoy puns about the 19th century Swiss semiotician Ferdinand de Saussure, you’ll be in heaven. ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
The Goldberg Variations...are a set of 30 variations for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach. First published in 1741...the work is considered to be one of the most important examples of variation form. It is named after Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, who may have been the first performer. Wikipedia.
It is, in short, music which observes neither end nor beginning, music with neither real climax nor real resolution, music which like Baudelaire's lovers rests lightly on the wings of the unchecked wind. Glenn Gould.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
My friends, there is no friend, Michel de Montaigne had written.
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
To disappear behind a mask, beneath the surface of things. He slid over the waxed floor and the art students shifted uncomfortably and they looked at one another for they had only felt a slight breeze, as if nought but a ghost had passed between them and as he made his way towards the exit the bored guard noticed a shadow that had zigzagged...everyone was disturbed, it seemed, by that portrait - it gave them vertigo - the way it was set at a slant, skewed, the fact that the woman's left eye was missing...and the shade stopped by the gallery shop to purchase the reproduction, yes, the one entitled 'Judith and Holofernes', yest, that one, by Redvers, and yes, that'll be on credit...
The Bath Fugues is a meditation on melancholy and art, in the form of three interwoven novellas, centred respectively on an ageing art forger; a Portuguese poet, opium addict and art collector; and a doctor, who has built an art gallery in tropical Queensland. These characters are tied by more than their art, each dealing with questions of deception and discovery, counterfeiting and rewriting, transmission and identity and each stretching the bonds of trust and friendship.
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If you don’t like such semantic discussions, you won’t like this. On the other hand, if you enjoy puns about the 19th century Swiss semiotician Ferdinand de Saussure, you’ll be in heaven. (