Description
Ravel Book Description: A real artist must create such an impressive and powerful work of art that, when necessary, he can sacrifice his health and even his life. Maurice Ravel, the composer of the world-famous Bolero, is one of such artists. He was born, lived, composed, played, traveled, saw, gradually forgot, had an accident, couldn't remember and died. An ordinary life, you say? Whatever your answer is, come and read the life of a great master of notes from the pen of a master of words. Jean Echenoz tells the last ten years of Maurice Ravel by convincing us that we are almost with the great composer himself. We see Ravel composing, at his peak, being happy, sad, slowly losing his memory, and approaching step by step towards collapse, death, and absolutely forgetting even his own compositions rather than the death of his body. (From the Promotional Bulletin)
This work, published by Ketebe Publications and written by Jean Echenoz, is now on Books in the World.