Conversations With Beethoven

An NYRB Classics Original Deaf as he was, Beethoven had to be addressed in writing, and he was always accompanied by a notebook in which people could scribble questions and comments. Conversations with Beethoven , in a tour de force of fictional invention, tells the story of the last year of Beethoven’s life almost entirely through such notebook entries: Friends, family, students, doctors, and others attend to the volatile Maestro, whose sometimes unpredictable and often very loud replies we infer. A fully fleshed and often very funny portrait of Beethoven emerges. He struggles with his music and with his health; he argues with and insults just about everyone. Most of all, he worries about his wayward--and beloved--nephew Karl. A large cast of Dickensian characters surrounds the great composer at the center of this wonderfully engaging novel, which deepens in the end to make a memorable music of its own.

Product details

• Authors: Sanford Friedman, Sanford/ Howard Friedman, Richard Howard
• Publisher: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.09.2014
• EAN: 9781590177624
• ISBN: 978-1-59017-762-4
• No. of pages: 344
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 207 mm x 20 mm
• Series: New York Review Books Classics; NYRB Classics; Nyrb Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature