Fugitive
Author: Tedeschi, Simon
ISBN: 9780645247961
Publisher: Upswell
Year First Published: 2022
Pages: 120
Dimensions: 210mm x 151mm x 12mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A beautiful work of the imagination, straddling history, memory, trauma and testimony
In 1917, a young composer writes a suite of twenty pieces for piano. Each pass by like a gust of wind. They are short, violent and strange - the music of another world. In 1938, a young Jewish family flees Italy for Sydney, Australia. In 1942, another family, this time Polish, is nearly destroyed.
Half a century later, a young man begins to understand the role the young composer's strange visions have played in everything that came before him and all that has come to be.
In his first book, Simon Tedeschi applies elements - from history, memory and the body of the musician - to make a remarkable work of imagination and fractal beauty. He straddles the borders of poetry and prose, fiction and fact, trauma and testimony. Fugitive is filled with what Russian poet Konstantin Balmont called 'the fickle play of rainbows'.
ISBN: 9780645247961
Publisher: Upswell
Year First Published: 2022
Pages: 120
Dimensions: 210mm x 151mm x 12mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
A beautiful work of the imagination, straddling history, memory, trauma and testimony
In 1917, a young composer writes a suite of twenty pieces for piano. Each pass by like a gust of wind. They are short, violent and strange - the music of another world. In 1938, a young Jewish family flees Italy for Sydney, Australia. In 1942, another family, this time Polish, is nearly destroyed.
Half a century later, a young man begins to understand the role the young composer's strange visions have played in everything that came before him and all that has come to be.
In his first book, Simon Tedeschi applies elements - from history, memory and the body of the musician - to make a remarkable work of imagination and fractal beauty. He straddles the borders of poetry and prose, fiction and fact, trauma and testimony. Fugitive is filled with what Russian poet Konstantin Balmont called 'the fickle play of rainbows'.
