Diary of One Who Vanished: A Song Cycle
Janacek, Leos; Heaney, Seamus; Kalda, Ozef
Sold by Montreal Books, Westmount, QC, Canada
AbeBooks Seller since February 10, 2003
Used - Soft cover
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Add to basketSold by Montreal Books, Westmount, QC, Canada
AbeBooks Seller since February 10, 2003
Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketA Cycle of Love Songs Translated by the Nobel Laureate
"Dappled woodland light,
Spring well chill and bright,
Eyes like stars at night,
Open knees so white.
Four things death itself won't cover,
Unforgettable forever."
In 1917, while reading his local newspaper, the Czech composer Leos Janacek discovered the poems that he was to set to music in his song cycle Diary of One Who Vanished. Written by Ozef Kalda and published anonymously, they tell the story of a farmer's boy who abandons his home because he has fallen in love with a Gypsy. These new English versions by Seamus Heaney were commissioned by the English National Opera for a series of international performances, which opened in Dublin in October 1999.
Ozef Kalda is the pseudonym of Josef Kalda (1871-1921), who was a prolific, genre-crossing writer from the Moravian Wallachia region of what is now the Czech Republic. He published the twenty-two poems that comprise The Diary of One Who Vanished anonymously in a newspaper in 1916.
Kalda's best-known works include the novel Ogan [The Lads] and the story collection Jalovinky [Idle Talk].
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