Hatred of music. Short treatises

Pascal Kinyar, laureate of the Goncurov Prize, the author of the novels and essays published in many languages, a musician, a researcher of ancient literature and musical culture of Baroque, suggests in this book to comprehend music as a paradoxical combination of creation and destruction, impersonal obsession and personal responsibility. How, captivating with sounds, not to lose yourself? How, playing a musical composition, preserve the genuine movements of the soul? Having gone with the author a long way, from ancient cults to orchestras in concentration camps, we will find an answer to these complex moral questions.

In every favorite music there is a fraction of its past, added to music itself ... These sounds are invisible, who never knew visibility - wander in us. The ancient sounds that haunted us. When we were still blind. When we still did not know how to breathe. They did not know how to scream. But already heard.
Pascal Kinyar

Pascal Kinyar, the French novelist and essayist, the laureate of the Gonkurovsky Prize, is also known as a professional cellist who devoted a significant part of his life performing and organizing music festivals - mainly on the music of the era baroque. He expressed a selfless commitment to music not only in novels - such as “all in the morning of the world”, “Villa "Amalia" and "Salon in Württemberg", but also in several essays, deeply deep and original in form. "Hatred of music" is actually an expression of the author’s passionate love for this type of art