Acts: The Autobiography of Wolfgang Wagner - Hardcover

Wagner, Wolfgang

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0297813498 ISBN 13: 9780297813491

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd, 1995

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Acts:The Autobiography of Wolfgang Wagner Signed and inscribed by the Author "To Allan & Claire Halber Wolfgang Wagner 24 XI 1999" Excellent condition See my other listings for much more! Allen17

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

From Publishers Weekly:

He is indeed his grandfather's progeny?imperious, supremely self-regarding?and his criticism of the Wagner family for its "tendency to provoke complications" applies to him as well. He seems disinclined to pull in his claws, making his self-described "caesura" a taxing read. Despite the author's protestations that he disdains conflict, that a "sewage farm" would be required to contain the "abuse and abject filth" he and his second wife have been subjected to, his autobiography is a sustained bleat, a payback. In primary disfavor is his sister Friedelind, and although he's more discreet about his highly regarded brother Wieland, he points out that Wieland, unlike himself, joined the Nazi Party. Also flogged is the younger Wagner generation, including his son and daughter by his first wife. Those observations made, there is nonetheless much of interest here, as the author, who was born in 1919, the third of the four children of Cosima and Richard Wagner's son Sigfried and his wife, Winifred, recalls?and attempts to rationalize?his mother's friendship with Hitler, then the postwar denazification of the Bayreuth Festival under his and Wieland's joint stewardship. Since his brother's death in 1966, the controversial author has continued as Bayreuth's overseer. Photos.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson Ltd
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0297813498
• ISBN 13: 9780297813491
• Binding: Hardcover