Chopin : the Man and His Music
James Huneker
Chopin : the Man and His Music
James Huneker · English
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Chopin : the Man and His Music
James Huneker · English
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PART I.—THE MAN I. POLAND:—YOUTHFUL IDEALS Gustave Flaubert, pessimist and master of cadenced lyric prose, urged young writers to lead ascetic lives that in their art they might be violent. Chopin's violence was psychic, a travailing and groaning of the spirit; the bright roughness of adventure was missing from his quotidian existence. The tragedy was within. One recalls Maurice Maeterlinck: "Whereas most of our life is passed far from blood, cries and swords, and the tea
Chopin : the Man and His Music
James Huneker
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