Erik Satie Three Piece Suite
Penman circles Satie in fragments: the velvet suits, the Rosicrucian phase, the furniture music, and a reputation that keeps getting rebuilt by other people.
Penman circles his subject in fragments rather than chapters, assembling an alphabet of preoccupations that takes in the velvet suits, the Rosicrucian phase, the furniture music and the strange afterlife of a composer whose reputation keeps being rebuilt by other people. Witty throughout, and easier going if you already know something about early modernism.
Recommended by 1 Person
Tyler Cowen
A hard book to explain. A kind of devil’s dictionary of terms related to Erik Satie, interesting and witty throughout, at least if you know something of early modernism and its culture. Recommended, for those who care.
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