The Hatred of Music

by Pascal Quignard

How does a man who once adored music beyond measure come to revile it as a form of tyranny?

Throughout Pascal Quignard's distinguished literary career, music has been a recurring obsession. As a musician he organized the International Festival of Baroque Opera and Theatre at Versailles in the early 1990s, and thus was instrumental in the rediscovery of much forgotten classical music. Yet in 1994 he abruptly renounced all musical activities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300211384
• ISBN13: 9780300211382
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.0"