2d printing of “a book of extraordinary interest as a studyfrom the inside of the ‘inwardness’ of a genius.”—TimesSaturday Review.
2d printing of “a book of extraordinary interest as a studyfrom the inside of the ‘inwardness’ of a genius.”—TimesSaturday Review.
The Diary of aMusician
Edited by DOLORES M. BACON
With decorations and illustrations byCharles Edward HooperandH. Latimer Brown.
12mo.$1.50 net.(By mail $1.62.)
A picture of the soul of a genius, naïvely unconscious of the limitations imposed upon life by some of us who are not geniuses—and probably by some who are. A vivid picture is given of the grinding poverty of his youth on the Hungarian farm, his struggle for education, and his strange success. His last entries are touching, and somewhat in the nature of a surprise. The book runs over with marked humor.“Much of that exquisite egotism, the huge, artistic Me and the tiny universe, the gluttony of the emotions, of the whole peculiar compound of hysteria, inspiration, vanity, insight and fidgets which goes to make up that delightful but somewhat rickety thing which we call the artistic temperament is reproduced.... ‘The Diary of a Musician’ does what most actual diaries fail to do—writes down a man in full. It is an entertaining study in naïveté and nerves, art-pains and genius-consciousness.”—Bookman.“Especially interesting; ... many amusing situations.”—Public Opinion.“The naïveté of the book is inimitable.... That marvelous, appalling, mad thing named genius, at once the despair of those who do and those who do not possess it, is here pictured with extraordinary fascination and power.”—Chicago Tribune.“Uncommon power distinguishes it; ... a curiously interesting book.”—Chicago Record-Herald.“A work of unusual character; ... entirely original in its scope.”—San Francisco Chronicle.“Take it how you will, ‘The Diary of a Musician’ is wonderful.”—Lucille Wetherell in Powers’ Reviews of the New Books, Minneapolis.
A picture of the soul of a genius, naïvely unconscious of the limitations imposed upon life by some of us who are not geniuses—and probably by some who are. A vivid picture is given of the grinding poverty of his youth on the Hungarian farm, his struggle for education, and his strange success. His last entries are touching, and somewhat in the nature of a surprise. The book runs over with marked humor.
“Much of that exquisite egotism, the huge, artistic Me and the tiny universe, the gluttony of the emotions, of the whole peculiar compound of hysteria, inspiration, vanity, insight and fidgets which goes to make up that delightful but somewhat rickety thing which we call the artistic temperament is reproduced.... ‘The Diary of a Musician’ does what most actual diaries fail to do—writes down a man in full. It is an entertaining study in naïveté and nerves, art-pains and genius-consciousness.”—Bookman.
“Especially interesting; ... many amusing situations.”—Public Opinion.
“The naïveté of the book is inimitable.... That marvelous, appalling, mad thing named genius, at once the despair of those who do and those who do not possess it, is here pictured with extraordinary fascination and power.”—Chicago Tribune.
“Uncommon power distinguishes it; ... a curiously interesting book.”—Chicago Record-Herald.
“A work of unusual character; ... entirely original in its scope.”—San Francisco Chronicle.
“Take it how you will, ‘The Diary of a Musician’ is wonderful.”—Lucille Wetherell in Powers’ Reviews of the New Books, Minneapolis.
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TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected.
Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been standardized.