| Title | : | Tchaikovsky: The Quest for the Inner Man |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.59 (836 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0028718852 |
| Format Type | : | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | : | 679 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1991-12-01 |
| Genre | : |
Tchaikovsky: The Quest for the Inner Man
Editorial : From Publishers Weekly This monumental 656-page biography is probably the fullest, most revealing account to date of Tchaikovsky's private life. Poznansky identifies the death of the composer's mother as a shattering experience for young Pyotr Ilyich, a source of deep existential melancholy. His hypersensitivity, forged by a child's feeling of paradise lost, would manifest in neurosis, insomnia and depressive fits marked by "a sense of insurmountable terror." A Yale University librarian, Poznansky explores the composer's obsessive fear of death, his idealized relationship with eccentric, free-thinking patron Nadezhda von Meck, the fiasco of his brief, unconsummated marriage, and his involvement in a homosexual subculture that simultaneously fascinated and repelled him. Drawing on Russian sources, the author refutes the theory that Tchaikovsky's death in 1893 at age 53 was a suicide forced upon him by a conspiracy of former classmates. "The story of a soul finding itself," this remarkab
Still, even their combined forces are outnumbered and outgunned by the powerful Grella.
Author Steve White mixes alternate future with E.T. She also accuses him of letting his feelings (Rodan and Nyx used to date) for her get in the way of his job. Third, that the Eilonwe are able to operate a guerilla war within miles of the main Grella base on their world strikes me as implausible.
I also had a hard time with the religious discussion and the willingness of the Europeans to accept that the Grilla (and Eilonwe) were extra-terestrial rather than demons. In the early sixteenth century, instead of finding the Fountain of Youth that he sought, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon discovers a strange craft that apparently fell from the sky. His later downward spiral following years of obsessive focus on In Cold Blood, a time that included enough alcohol and drugs to choke a horse, resulted in his somewhat unethical betrayal of the Swans right there on the pages of Esqui
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