Lost Musicians : Dedalus Europe - HEINESEN WILLIAM

Lost Musicians

By: HEINESEN WILLIAM

Paperback | 8 January 2006

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This is a new translation by W. Glyn Jones of William Heinesen?s masterpiece and one of the most important Scandinavian novels of the 20th century. ??William Heinesen's novels are intensely Faeroese, but so universal in their appeal that the reader automatically surrenders to their charm, their energy, their easy intensity - and is overwhelmed by the perspective they convey." The Independent Music is at the heart of this book. The devotion to it of a group of amateur musicians forming the Boman Quartet prevents a series of dramatic events from turning into heart-rending tragedy. Music enables each of the musicians to rise above his own bleak situation. But there is humour, too, especially in the satirical, larger-than-life portrayal of the local sectarians, led by the bank manager Ankersen, as they seek in vain to break the spirit of the musicians. And humour of a more earthy kind in Janniksen, the huge blacksmith who is completely at the mercy of his petty-minded sectarian wife. The setting is a small Faroese town at the beginning of the 20th century ? and that town is today the capital of the Faroe Islands, Torshavn.
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"Constructed as a classical symphony, the novel has music at its heart and is at the same time a wonderful mixture of caricature, satire and poetry. On a higher plane it represents the cosmic struggle between life-asserting and life-denying forces. It is set in an unnamed town in an unnamed tiny country in the North Atlantic - for those who know it is quite clearly and recognisably the capital of the Faroe Islands, Torshavn. For those who do not know it, it is of no matter, as the novel's theme is one of universality. Seldom can such great themes have been treated in such an approachable fashion." W. Glyn Jones"

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