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Kreeftengang

door Paolo Maurensig

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This novel, set in Austria in the 30s is about musical passions and jealousy. It begins with the purchase at an auction of a 300-year-old violin with an unusual carving at the top of the neck - a precise reproduction of a man's face. The new owner is plunged almost immediately into the instrument's strange history.… (meer)
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Uno dei pochi libri di cui si può dire che il film che ne è stato tratto è più bello: Ricky Tognazzi ha dato un'interpretazione profonda della vicenda, con degli spunti interessanti.
Regalato a un amico violinista. ( )
  LaPizia | Aug 3, 2017 |
It was interesting to see the use of a musical structure for text, but ultimately I found it a bit too mesmeric for the middle hundred or so pages. ( )
  Melanielgarrett | Apr 2, 2013 |
". . . my mind had become accustomed to severity, to discipline, to the pursuit of perfection. I suddenly felt as if I were a stranger among all those noisy people who had nothing to do with music, talked about everything but, and were concerned with things I didn't understand."(p 91)

An antique violin is the heart of Paolo Maurensig's exploration of art and the artist. The question is: who is the greater artist? The one who owns his art or the one who is owned by it? Structured almost like The Rime of the Ancient Mariner the buyer of the violin is accosted by a stranger who relays the history of the instrument, the rivalry between budding artists Kuno and Jeno at a horrific music academy, and the playing out of their lives against the backdrop of the Nazi occupation of Europe. Deeply layered, full of symbols and themes, this is almost a perfect novella. In fact that is one of the themes of the book:

"Perfection, you see, is related to infinity, but infinity is not the only infinitely big. It is also the infinitely small. Perfection can suggest the idea of forward movement, but also the idea of coming to a halt. The search for perfection proceeds with a pace that becomes infinitely slower. It is a continuous progression that nevertheless gradually reduces itself as it approaches its goal."(p 37)

The main character, a Hungarian peasant boy named Jeno, is haunted both by his obsession to achieve perfection in playing the violin and his obsession for Sophie, a violinist and music teacher. While still a young boy he is sent to study at a serious music academy where he meets and becomes friends with another young boy, and Aristocratic Austrian boy named Kuno. He at first seems to be Jeno's doppelganger, but we soon find that he is filled with contrasts to Jeno that complement him. They are linked by the violin.

The beauty of the prose is like music and its structure mimics that of a work of music. Reminiscent of the short fiction of Sandor Marai or Isak Dinesen this novella is exceptionally poignant and affecting on many levels. Most importantly, it questions the reality of the very lives that we live - are they merely a dream? Reading books like this makes the question one that could lead to obsession. ( )
  jwhenderson | Dec 11, 2010 |
Nella mia trasferta patavina, tra treni e dopo cena ho terminato di leggere “Canone Inverso”. Credo si tratti di un libro che lo ha reso famoso o da cui hanno tratto un film. Ho vaghi ricordo in merito ad un trailer, ma le scene non hanno nulla a che vedere col libro. Chissà se si trattava dello stesso racconto. Misteri della mia mente, o della filmografia.

Questo libro si dimostra subito interessante per la sua struttura, che è quasi a scatole cinesi: ci sono tre narratori, che raccontano in prima persona il storia l’uno dell’altro e ascoltano le storie, l’uno dell’altro.

Detta così potrebbe far pensare a un romanzo confusionale , ma da buone scatole cinesi i racconto più esteri fungono da interessantissimi e , alla fine, risolutive, cornici. Anzi, lo scioglimento della storia acquista originalità e particolarità proprio grazie a questa struttura a cornici.

Le prima pagine narrano di un violino comprato all’asta ,sul cavigliere questo singolarissimo strumento è stata intarsiata una testa d’uomo o di un anima dannata che urla e che ancora lascia il suo segno sullo strumento legandosi sottilmente alla persona che lo suona.

Ma subito entra in scena un secondo uomo che ha bisogno di sincerarsi che quel violino sia vero, perché se lui è vero allora è vera anche il folle e magistrale violinista di strada Jenö Varga.Questo menestrello d’altri tempi ha affascinato l’uomo, un romanziere a caccia di storie, con e sue straordinarie esibizioni tanto da indurlo rintracciarlo, nonostante l’impresa paia quasi impossibile, in una città come Vienna.

La storia passa allora di nuovo ad u altro narratore, Jenö che parla di un collegio dove isolati dal mondo e sottoposto alle angherie di maestri invidiosi, studenti si arrampicano lungo la scala della perfezione tecnica, in un ambiente di rivalità ed ostilità reciproca, indotti a dimenticare la passione e la vita che s’intreccia nella musica. Ma Entro queste mura, dopo anni due spiriti affini si incontrano e entrano in consonanza, superando le difficoltà di quell’ambiente ostile ad ogni sentimento positivo.

quest’affinità acquisterà presto caratteri ben diversi da quelli immaginati. Come dice Maurensig nel suo libro, sarà un canone inverso e il punto di frattura sarà la visita di Jenö presso la casa dell’amico. Si passerà dall’armonia alla cacofonia.

Ma Maurensig non inseguirebbe la sia riflessione sul doppio, sul Doppelgänger fino in fondo se la sua storia si concludesse qui, e la prima e più esterna cornice, dal sapore quasi pirandelliano, non potrebbe compiere il suo compito.

Si dovrà inseguire ora il secondo narratore fino in Ungheria, perché il mistero del virtuoso menestrello da strada s’infittisca, e si dovrà lasciare che il nostro romanziere se ne vada dalle nostre pagine senza una risposta; poi dovremo prendere una lussuosa fino a Vienna , girare verso Innsbruck col primo narratore che, finalmente, chiuderà il cerchio e svelerà le due facce della medaglia o in questo caso del violino. ( )
  argax | Jan 23, 2010 |
Dopo aver visto il film di Ricky Tognazzi ho sentito l'urgenza di leggere il libro da cui è stato liberamente tratto. Entrambi pur diversi sono molto piacevoli. Il libro in particolare si legge avidamnet in poco tempo per sapere "come andrà a finire". Ancora una volta è apprezzabile la capacità e la leggerezza dell'autore nello scrivere. ( )
  permario | Nov 11, 2009 |
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As to the origins of bowed instruments, it is said that the wife of Shiva, the goddess Parvati, felt such great pity for the fate that awaited man at the end of his terrestrial adventure that she decided to give him something that would protect him from demons and help him to find on earth, whenever he wished, the world of the gods.
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Music elevates the feeling and the very nature of man, but in order to reach such heights he must pass though a good deal of screeching, roaring and dissonance. Behind the refined music we hear performed with levity and perfection by an orchestra or a string quartet, there is the straining of nerves, the gushing of blood, the breaking of hearts.
As is true of many other professions, a violinist's job entails physical stresses that over time become unequivocally etched onto the person's physiognomy. A violinist who plays in an orchestra is marked by the instrument that has lorded over him for a lifetime. And with age, the traces of this servitude become increasingly evident: his eyes possess a kind of moodiness, and his gestures reveal his absolute dedication.
But the most absurd doubt that would seize me late at night, provoking hours and hours of insomnia, was caused by the observation that music existed only in the moment in which I produced it, and that it deserted me every time I lifted my bow from the strings, without giving me any reassurance that it would return. I would have to get out of bed and go pluck the violin strings just to makes sure that they still vibrated, that the music was still there, present, even if a bit sleepy, and would fully awaken when I so desired. But then I would ask myself: once the music came back, would it be the same?
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This novel, set in Austria in the 30s is about musical passions and jealousy. It begins with the purchase at an auction of a 300-year-old violin with an unusual carving at the top of the neck - a precise reproduction of a man's face. The new owner is plunged almost immediately into the instrument's strange history.

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In een café in het Weense Grinzing ontmoet een schrijver een rondzwervende muzikant.Voor de grap, maar ook om hem te tarten, vraagt hij deze violist een uitzonderlijk moeilijk stuk, Bachs Chaconne, te spelen. De vagebond speelt het stuk echter perfect, steekt zijn hoed uit en maakt, terwijl hij een royale fooi van de verbaasde luisteraar ontvangt, een obsceen gebaar naar hem. De volgende dag gaat de schrijver op zoek naar deze wonderbaarlijke muzikant.Wanneer hij hem eindelijk gevonden heeft, stelt de violist een vreemde vraag. 'Hebt u ooit een verhaal geschreven dat zich afspeelt in de wereld van de muziek?' 'Nee', antwoordt deschrijver, hem uitleggend dat muziek, naar zijn idee, boven alles staat en onmogelijk met menselijke wederwaardigheden te vervlechten is. 'Goed', zegt geheimzinnige muzikant. Dan zal hij hem een verhaal over muziek vertellen. Een angstaanjagend verhaal, dat 'de waarheid en niets dan de waarheid bevat'. Kreeftengang is een muzikaal, aangrijpend en zeer spannend boek, geschreven met een Süskind-achtige helderheid.
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