The Story of a Genius
A collection of three short stories opens with a portrait of a celebrated virtuoso who returns from seclusion with a provocative oratorio that polarizes musicians and society; rehearsal scenes and the public's response reveal ambition, rivalry, and physical decline, while a chance sighting of a disheveled stranger suggests a haunted past. The other tales deliver compact narratives of eccentric figures and odd episodes, blending musical detail, psychological observation, and ironic satire to probe the costs of artistic brilliance, the fragility of reputation, and the uneasy boundary between creation and self-destruction.
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A collection of three short stories opens with a portrait of a celebrated virtuoso who returns from seclusion with a provocative oratorio that polarizes musicians and society; rehearsal scenes and the public's response reveal ambition, rivalry, and physical decline, while a chance sighting of a disheveled stranger suggests a haunted past. The other tales deliver compact narratives of eccentric figures and odd episodes, blending musical detail, psychological observation, and ironic satire to probe the costs of artistic brilliance, the fragility of reputation, and the uneasy boundary between creation and self-destruction.
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