A Musical Offering by Luis Sagasti
Sagasti narrates for us a thousand and one stories centre around music that take the reader from Bach to Gould, from Gould to the Beatles, from Sergeant Pepper to the music that was played in Nazi concentration camps, and so on.. But when do we end a story? When do we decide to sing the final lullaby?Society of Authors Valle-Inclán Prize (Winner)
Republic of Consciousness Prize (Shortlist)
"Fluidity, charm, emotion and disarming brushes of grace" —The Wall Street Journal
"A bewitching suite of stories about music, heard and unheard." —The Arts Desk
"A beautiful, fragmentary rendition which never strikes a false note." —Irish Times
"A Musical Offering is less an attempt to write about music than to actually write music - using words as a new kind of notation."" —Will Ashon , author of CHAMBER MUSIC and STRANGE LABYRINTH
"The literary equivalent of a symphony." —Books and Bao
"Sagasti handles his elements masterfully, subtly and dexterously weaves new threads into his tapestry." —BookBlast
"A work of immense complexity, great balance and extraordinary beauty." —The Monthly Booking
"Sagasti manages to create a world rich in illuminations and philosophical reflections." —Morning Star
"Sagasti’s careful contrapuntal construction weaves together an eclectic range of vignettes which transcend their parts, leaving an indelible emotional impact that defies rationalisation." —Gutter Magazine
"I have gained knowledge I didn’t know I needed." —Joyzine
"A veritable fugue of insights and literary forms, subtlety and humour." —Asymptote
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Praise for Luis Sagasti
Society of Authors TA First Translation Prize (Shortlist)
"A subtle marvel...a nimble writer who merits wider readership in English." —Kirkus
"A genre-defying collection of associative musings on art, music, philosophy, and literature." —Publishers Weekly
"Innovative, playful, and beautifully executed."" —Carlos Fonseca , author of COLONEL LAGRIMAS
"Simply genius."" —Enrique Vila-Matas , author of DUBLINESQUE
"A work of wonderful analogies and disparate historical footnotes." —Morning Star
"Like Borges before him, Sagasti has produced a rare thing: a work of fiction as learned as it is fun." —Gary M. Perry, Foyles Charing Cross
"Sagasti produces here a magnificent constellation of stories, and in doing so pays tribute to art." —Fnac
"One hundred pages of pure intelligence, to be enjoyed listening to Sun Ra." —L’Arbre Vengeur
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Luis Sagasti , a writer, lecturer and art critic, was born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina in 1963. He studied History at the Universidad Nacional del Sur, where he now teaches. From 1995 to 2003 he was a curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Bahía Blanca, authoring numerous art catalogues for exhibitions. As well as Fireflies and A Musical Offering , published by Charco, he has several other novels: El Canon de Leipzig (1999), Los Mares de la luna (2006), Maelstrom (2015), Leyden Ltd. (2019)__ –__ a book composed entirely of footnotes – and most recently Lenguas vivas (2023).
Fionn Petch is a Scottish-born translator working from Spanish, Italian and French into English. He lived in Mexico City for 12 years, where he completed a PhD in Philosophy at the UNAM. His translations of Latin American literature for Charco Press have been widely acclaimed. Fireflies by Luis Sagasti was shortlisted for the Translators’ Association First Translation Award 2018. The Distance Between Us by Renato Cisneros received an English PEN Award in 2018. A Musical Offering , also by Luis Sagasti, was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize 2021 and won the Society of Authors Premio Valle Inclán 2021 for best translation from Spanish. He now lives in Berlin.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781999368456 |
| ISBN 10 | 1999368452 |
| Title | A Musical Offering |
| Author | Luis Sagasti |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Charco Press |
| Year published | 2020-07-21 |
| Number of pages | 117 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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