Axel Tapa dura - 1998

Evanston. 1998. Hydra Books/Northwestern University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0810116170. Translated from the Finland-Swedish by David McDuff. . hardcover. . keywords: Literature Translated Sweden Finland Scandinavia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - As a novelist Bo Carpelan made his international breakthrough with Axel (1986). In this fictional diary the title character is Carpelan's great-uncle, a violinist and a devoted friend Jean Sibelius, whom the composer dedicated his Second Symphony (1902). A failed musician, Axel was constantly broke, he suffered from a mysterious illness, but he also supported Sibelius economically. After the death of his most responsive critic, Sibelius wrote in his diary on March 19, 1919: ‘Now Axel is being lowered into the earth's cold arms. It feels so deeply, deeply tragic! For whom will I compose now!' Carpelan came across the name of his great-uncle for the first time in his childhood, but the real stimulus toward writing the novel… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.