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Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music | Alex Ross

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Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner became the proving ground for modern art and politics—an aesthetic war zone where the Western world wrestled with its capacity for beauty and violence.

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Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music | Alex Ross

Henry James synchronicity: currently reading The Golden Bowl, just read a chapter in Alex Roth's book Wagnerism that references James, and while reading George Saunder's book A Swim in the Pond in the Rain James is quoted on the style of Turgenev. Whoa

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Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music | Alex Ross

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A masterpiece, albeit an exhausting read

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