A Musical Offering - Couverture souple

Sagasti, Luis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1999368452 ISBN 13 : 9781999368456

Editeur : Charco Press, 2020

Synopsis

In the 18th century, Count Keyserling commissions Johann Sebastian Bach to compose a piece of music that will finally allow him to fall asleep. Bach, surpassing all expectations, creates an aria containing thirty variations that became known as the Goldberg Variations, in honour of its first performer, put in charge of playing the piece night after night until the count fell asleep. With this story, Luis Sagasti opens a hypnotic tale full of counterpoints that, just like the Variations, sets out to follow the turns of a melody so as to arrive at the final aria­where­ everything begins again. Like Goldberg repeating melodies over and over for the Count to rest, Sagasti narrates for us a thousand and one stories that take the reader from Bach to Gould, from Gould to the Beatles, from Sergeant Pepper to the music that was played in Nazi concentration camps, and from there to 433 by John Cage, to The Who and so on, ad infinitum. But when do we end a story? When do we decide to sing the final lullaby? For Sagasti, undoubtedly, the cosmic order is a musical one.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Luis Sagasti, a writer, lecturer and art critic, was born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina in 1963. He studied History at the Universidad Nacional del Sur, where he now teaches. From 1995 to 2003 he was a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bahía Blanca, authoring numerous art catalogues for exhibitions. As well as Fireflies and A Musical Offering, published by Charco, he has several other novels: El Canon de Leipzig (1999), Los Mares de la luna (2006), Maelstrom (2015), Leyden Ltd. (2019)__ -__ a book composed entirely of footnotes - and most recently Lenguas vivas (2023).

Fionn Petch is a Scottish-born translator working from Spanish, Italian and French into English. He lived in Mexico City for 12 years, where he completed a PhD in Philosophy at the UNAM. His translations of Latin American literature for Charco Press have been widely acclaimed. Fireflies by Luis Sagasti was shortlisted for the Translators' Association First Translation Award 2018. The Distance Between Us by Renato Cisneros received an English PEN Award in 2018. A Musical Offering, also by Luis Sagasti, was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2021 and won the Society of Authors Premio Valle Inclán 2021 for best translation from Spanish. He now lives in Berlin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Charco Press
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1999368452
• ISBN 13: 9781999368456
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 117
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible