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No music can surprise him, he is his own music.
Paul -Emil Lue is the most ingenious and most ugly pianist in the world. He owes his successes to a combination of a phenomenal gift and a passionate, "Luzhin" enthusiasm for a profession.
In the novel of the French writer Jean-Louis Baya, the history of the life of a genius and a detailed chronicle of the posthumous decay of his body alternate. Ironous post -ortic observations that anticipate each of the chapters of the novel, in the best traditions, pathaphysics combine scientific and poetic, but the playful tone that the author represents his "Memento Mori" does not at all detract from natural horror before the solemn power of Tanatos. Climbing to the tragic peaks of performing and the transformation of the mortal remains into a radiant whiteness of the skeleton constitute a paradoxical rhyme that can reconcile the reader with the existence of himself and the like