Lars GustafssonāsĀ
Funeral Music for FreemasonsĀ (1983), the Swedish writerās fifth book of fiction to be translated into English, follows the lives of three free spirits of the 1950s, from their aspiring student years in Stockholm to their present realities, so different from their youthful imaginings. Jan Bohman, a brilliant poet become smalltime African merchantāāa latterday Rimbaudāāis about to be deported from Senegal. Hans (āHasseā to his friends), an idealistic research physicist, is now a professor at Harvard, leading the protected surburban life of an American academic. Ann-Marie Nƶhme, the promising Mozartean soprano in the bonds of whose love both men agonized, has had a failed career in a provincial repertory. How could so much talent have come to so little? Was there something in the Sweden of their youth, and by extension the whole of the industrial West, that prefigured the death of creativity? Or might it have been spent, drained away in loveās passion? Then again, perhaps these years never did in fact happen, memory following one time-line, existence another, so that their real lives seem to have gone unlived. With his customary psychological delicacy and philosophical aplomb, Lars Gustafsson has composed a novel inĀ
Funeral Music for FreemasonsĀ that, like the MozartĀ TrauermusikĀ the title invokes, sings a moving dirge for an age.
This book title, Funeral Music for Freemasons (Novel), ISBN: 9780811210188, by Lars Gustafsson, Yvonne L. Sandstroem, published by New Directions (May 17, 1987) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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