The Poor Musician (German Classics. The Life of Grillparzer)
Jan 2008 · Mondial
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"The Poor Musician" is an autobiographical novella by Austria's famous dramatist and poet Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872): Rounded and compacted, and yet saturated with the sad tragedy of his own isolation -- it is the most artistic work we have from his pen. For the student of Grillparzer-psychology it is a veritable treasure trove. "The Poor Musician" was the one piece of his creative genius that unflinchingly grappled with the great problem of resignation; the one piece that pictured resignation; but also the one piece that made resignation itself tragic. --- The poor, half-witted fiddler, shipwrecked in life, coddling his woe as the last sweet treasure it has left him, pouring it forth in the midnight solitude of his chamber in music that is music to none but the illusioned player -- such is resignation.
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December 28, 2010
If you are going to buy this book beware. The actual text is 58 pages long, and the afterword (27 pages) was published in 1913 and it's fascinating (or just bizarre) how outdated it is. Now if you like to study outdated afterwards this is your thing, otherwise it's like reading a fool from the past. I believe the translation too is very old, but the publisher suspiciously offers no date. I suspect that Mondial press slaps out-of-print texts together and prints them on demand which is not all bad, but just so you know. By the way, it is a handsomely designed little book, so I will give them credit for that. It seems to me, though, that a well-done scholarly analysis that puts Grillparzer and this book in context would be very nice (the afterward actually mentions The Poor Musician only in passing).
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