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The “music school” refers not only to the pedagogic training of children in the musical arts but, according to literary critic Robert Detweiler, “a pathos-ridden paradigm of the exercises their elders practice in learning life’s notes…Music School is life.” [6] Detwieler points out that the story possesses neither a discernible plot nor a linear narrative, yet conveys “the ...
Literary critic George W. Hunt remarks upon the nexus of style and theme that characterize the story's in the volume: The Music School collection holds a distinctive place in the Updike corpus because it contains several stories that, in addition to more familiar Updike themes, especially engage the issues of artistic self-consciousness and the act of composition itself.” [4]
Kate Kellaway in The Guardian praises the book as "a brilliant, comprehensive, unpredictable defence of public libraries. It is also a collection of stories characterised by an imaginative freedom underpinned by her reading...Texts, emails, recorded voices, Google, iPlayer are conspicuous in these stories – sometimes comically unhelpful, always distracting.
The story uses third-person narration and tells the story of Victor, a self-conscious man for whom "music he did not know... could be likened to the patter of a conversation in a strange tongue." [1] When Victor arrives at a party, he finds the other guests listening with varying degrees of engagement to a man named Wolfe play the piano. As ...
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Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall is a 2009 collection of short fiction by Kazuo Ishiguro. After six novels, it is Ishiguro's first collection of short stories, though it is described by the publisher as a "story cycle". As the subtitle suggests, each of the five stories focuses on music and musicians, and the close of day.
Starting Tuesday, Amazon Music Unlimited customers in the U.S., U.K. and Canada can listen to one book monthly (of any length) from Audible, in addition to having unlimited access to more than 100 ...
In the past, I've tried to make a distinction in my own use of the term between autobiographical fiction, autobiographical metafiction, and autofiction, arguing that in autofiction there tends to be an emphasis on the narrator's or protagonist's or authorial alter ego's status as a writer or artist and that the book's creation is inscribed in ...