Infinity: The Story of a Moment (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Infinity Deals with Tancredo Pavone, the wealthy and eccentric Sicilian nobleman and avant-garde composer. In this book his manservant recalls what his master told him about his colourful life and repeats Pavone's often outrageous opinions about everything from the current state of the world to the inner life of each note.
Full description- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Published: 01 June 2012
- Format: Paperback 144 pages
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- Categories: Contemporary Fiction
- ISBN 13: 9781847771667 ISBN 10: 1847771661
- Sales rank: 189,406
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Full description for Infinity
"The piano is not an instrument for young ladies Massimo, he said, it is an instrument for gorillas. Only a gorilla has the strength to attack the piano as it should be attacked, only a gorilla has the uninhibited energy to challenge the piano as it should be challenged". Thus Tancredo Pavone, the wealthy and eccentric Sicilian nobleman and avant-garde composer, as reported by his former manservant Massimo. In the course of the single interview which is this book, Massimo recalls what his master told him about his colourful life and repeats Pavone's often outrageous opinions about everything from the current state of the world to the inner life of each note. It becomes comically clear that not only does Pavone not always distinguish between memory and imagination, but that Massimo does not always understand what it is he is repeating. Yet what emerges is a moving portrait of a close bond between two people from utterly different social spheres, and of a complex and vulnerable man who never gave up trying to give voice to the music that he heard within him.
