From the Back Cover:
Translated from an award-winning French edition, this unique work explores the aesthetic resonances between playing the piano and t'ai chi ch'uan - each an art of the "beautiful gesture". The author draws on memory, reflection, works of philosophy, art, and literature, and her own parallel practice of piano and t'ai chi in a lyrical meditation on discipline as the gateway to freedom and gesture as the expression of spirit in action.
About the Author:
Born and raised in Paris by her American mother and French father, Catherine David is a journalist and literary critic for the news magazine Le Nouvelle Observateur, writing on a range of topics including fiction, poetry, film, philosophy, biology, psychology, and history. She is the author of a novel, L'Ocean miniature, and a personal biography of the great actress, Simone Signoret ou la Memoire partagee.
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