The Pole a novel
"Exacting yet unpredictable, pithy yet complex, Coetzee's The Pole tells the story of Wittold Walccyzkiecz, a vigorous, extravagantly white-haired pianist and interpreter of Chopin who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his concert in Ba...
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| Format: | UnknownFormat |
| Sprache: | eng |
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New York
Liveright Publishing Corporation
2023
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Chopin, Frédéric
> Pianists
> Women music patrons
> Man-woman relationships
> Adultery
> Infatuation
> Pianistes - Romans, nouvelles, etc
> Relations entre hommes et femmes - Romans, nouvelles, etc
> Pianistes - Pologne - Romans, nouvelles, etc
> Femmes mécènes de la musique - Espagne - Romans, nouvelles, etc
> Pianists - Fiction
> Man-woman relationship - Fiction
> Fiction
> Romance fiction
> Novels
> Psychological fiction
> Romans
> Barcelona (Spain)
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "Exacting yet unpredictable, pithy yet complex, Coetzee's The Pole tells the story of Wittold Walccyzkiecz, a vigorous, extravagantly white-haired pianist and interpreter of Chopin who becomes infatuated with Beatriz, a stylish patron of the arts, after she helps organize his concert in Barcelona. Although Beatriz, a married woman, is initially unimpressed by Wittold and his "gleaming dentures," she soon finds herself pursued and ineluctably swept into his world. As the journeyman performer sends her countless letters, extends invitations to travel, and even visits her husband's summer home in Mallorca, their unlikely relationship blossoms, though only on Beatriz's terms. The power struggle between them intensifies, eventually escalating into a full-fledged battle of the sexes. But is it Beatriz who limits their passion by paralyzing her emotions? Or is it Wittold, the old man at his typewriter, trying to force into life his dream of love? Reinventing the all-encompassing love of the poet Dante for his Beatrice, Coetzee exposes the fundamentally enigmatic nature of romance, showing how a chance meeting between strangers--even "a Pole, a man of seventy, a vigorous seventy," and a stultified "banker's wife who occupies her days in good works"--can suddenly change everything" -- |
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| Beschreibung: | 167 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781324093862 978-1-324-09386-2 |