Anthony Weller (1957–2021)
Auteur de Days and Nights on the Grand Trunk Road
Œuvres de Anthony Weller
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First Into Nagasaki: The Censored Eyewitness Dispatches on Post-Atomic Japan and Its Prisoners of War (2006) — Directeur de publication — 246 exemplaires
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- Autres noms
- WELLER, Anthony
- Date de naissance
- 1957
- Date de décès
- 2021-06-03
- Sexe
- male
- Cause du décès
- Multiple sclerosis
- Professions
- Musician
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- Œuvres
- 8
- Aussi par
- 1
- Membres
- 109
- Popularité
- #178,011
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 6
- ISBN
- 13
- Langues
- 2
- Favoris
- 1
The main character, a jazz musician, spends his time hunting for his dead wife. He reflects, at one point, near the end of the book that though he spent his life making music, when he dies, he will be forgotten fairly soon, although he managed a couple of concerts that transported his listeners, to such an extent that they were lifted, flying, maybe like riding the horse or chasing the dragon. I'm too attached to the illusion of logic and consecutive thought and the solid dirt of earth ever to fly out of my head. Except when I hear the right music.
I'm not attached to the soulmate solution for the problem of existence. Funny, the book I read before this was called the Archivist, and he too was on a search for his dead wife, who essentially committed suicide because her husband violated basic archival principles and threw away her notes about the holocaust, which he thought were making her insane, but really were just the research for her poems. The question of that book was--if your creative process makes you unsociable and your behavior suspect, should you continue to be allowed to pursue it?… (plus d'informations)