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A saga of a magnificent violin, Antonietta, named after a beautiful woman who was the inspiration of Antonio Stradivari's later years. As Hersey brings Mozart, Berlioz, and Stravinsky to life, he offers us a marvelous celebration of the changing character and eternal art and power of music.
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John Hersey was born in Tientsin, China, in 1914 and lived there until 1925, when his family returned to the United States. He studied at Yale and Cambridge, served for a time as Sinclair Lewis’s secretary, and then worked several years as a journalist. Beginning in 1947, he devoted his time mainly to writing fiction. He won the Pulitzer Prize, taught for two decades at Yale, and was president of the Authors League of America and chancellor of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. John Hersey died in 1993.
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Hersey's latest work (after Fling: and Other Stories) is a delightful tour de force--a picaresque novel tracing the peregrinations of a violin created in Cremona by Stradivari in 1699, dubbed the Antonietta in honor of the master luthier's second wife. Hersey divides the story into five "acts" that dramatize the violin's fortunes under various owners. He syncopates the narrative via four "intermezzi," which interject factual data linking the fictional portions, and ends with a bittersweet "finale." In each section the stylistic tone is appropriate to the music coaxed from the Strad by violinists of each century. First the prose cadences suggest the sensual passion of the middle-aged Stradivari, obsessed by the lusty Antonietta. Next, Mozart's frolicsome, irreverent, scatological voice is conveyed in letters that record his fascination with the instrument; the third selection captures the flamboyant personality and romantic music of Berlioz; the fourth is a fugue featuring the voices of Stravinsky, the writer C. F. Ramuz and violinist Federovsky. In the novel's last section, however, Hersey's own voice is most clearly heard, as he deplores the fate of culture in the modern world, where life "no longer imitates art, it imitates TV," and the Strad arouses in listeners cupidity and greed. (Here the musical references are to the "mathematical" compositions of Schoenberg, Hindemith, Alban Berg.) This novel satisfies on several levels; one need not know music to enjoy it, but the music lover will be doubly enchanted by a virtuoso performance. BOMC and QPB alternates.
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- PublisherKnopf
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0679401946
- ISBN 13 9780679401940
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages304
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