A French woman haunted by her encounter with an American-German
pianist-composer who is obsessed with Arnold Schoenberg's portrait,
flies home with her lively sister and a volume of Adorno's letters
to Thomas Mann. While the impossible heroine unpicks her social
failures the pianist reaches towards a musical self-portrait with
all the resonance of Schoenberg's passionate, chilling blue. A
novel of angst and high farce, Blue Self-Portrait unfolds among
Berlin's cultural institutions but is more truly located in the
mid-air flux between contrary impulses to remember and to ignore.
Noemi Lefebvre shows how music continues to work on and through us,
addressing past trauma while reaching for possible futures.
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