Blue Self-Portrait

A contemporary novel of angst and high farce, "Blue Self-Portrait" unfolds among Berlin's cultural institutions but is more truly located in the mid-air flux between contrary impulses to remember and to ignore. Noemi Lefebvre shows how music continues to work on and through us, addressing past trauma while reaching for possible futures. A French woman haunted by her encounter with an American-German pianist-composer who is obsessed with Arnold Schoenberg''s portrait, flies home with her lively sister and a volume of Adorno''s letters to Thomas Mann. While the impossible heroine unpicks her social failures the pianist reaches towards a musical self-portrait with all the resonance of Schoenberg''s passionate, chilling blue. A novel of angst and high farce, Blue Self-Portrait unfolds among Berlin''s cultural institutions but is more truly located in the mid-air flux between contrary impulses to remember and to ignore.

• | Author: Noemi Lefebvre, Sophie Lewis
• | Publisher: Les Fugitives
• | Publication Date: Jun 15, 2017
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• | Language: eng
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780993009327
• | ISBN-10: 0993009328