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Piano

door Jean Echenoz

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Max Delmarc, age fifty, is a famous concert pianist with two problems: the first is a paralyzing stage fright for which the second, alcohol, is the only treatment. In this unparalleled comedy from the Prix Goncourt-winning French novelist Jean Echenoz, we journey with Max, from the trials of his everyday life, through his untimely death, and on into the afterlife. After a brief stay in purgatory--part luxury hotel, part minimum security prison, under the supervision of deceased celebrities--Max is cast into an alarmingly familiar partition of hell, "the urban zone," a dark and cloudy city much like his native Paris on an eternally bad day. Unable to play his beloved piano or stomach his needed drink, Max engages in a hapless struggle to piece his former life back together while searching in vain for the woman he once loved. An acclaimed bestseller with 50,000 copies sold in France, Piano is a sly, sardonic evocation of Dante and Sartre for the present day, the playful, daring masterpiece of a novelist at the top of his form.… (meer)
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Toon 4 van 4
A sweet little book. I bought it knowing it would be a quick and light read, to accompany a cappuccino while waiting - and that is exactly what it is. It is humorous and gentle. Max is a famous concert pianist, alcoholic and virgin who dies suddenly. He wakes up in a hospital-like institution and it becomes clear fairly quickly that he is in a sort of purgatory, waiting until his fate, heaven or hell, is determined by unseen powers. He then is sent to the "urban zone", a representation of his former home town, Paris, with a handful of rules and regulations. The novel is entertaining to read, nothing too clever, good for bath time or similar, nothing that drags you in or stays with you for very long, but sometimes you need just such a book. ( )
1 stem HeikeM | Oct 21, 2010 |
Piano is a quirky but humorous short novel about a renowned concert pianist, beset by alcoholism and stage fright, who dies suddenly at the height of his career. He finds himself in a purgatory that resembles a luxury hotel that is staffed by celebrities. He soon learns his fate, and he is sent to the "urban zone", a Sartrean representation of his former Parisian arrondissement, where he is forbidden to resume his former life or contact anyone he previously knew. The action in Piano drags in a couple of spots, but otherwise it was an entertaining and interesting read. ( )
  kidzdoc | May 3, 2010 |
Oh god! His hundreds of uses of the "former and latter"... I got so sick of it! "Bernie and Max walked along, the former happy, the latter sad", or some such rot. Over and over. "Former and latter"! Ugh!

And his tiresome DETAILS of EVERYTHING! His detailed lists of objects! He had to display his intimate knowledge of rickshaws (show-off!).

Here is a perfect example of TOO MANY details: He is describing waiters.

"The service was supervised by a headwaiter wearing a black tuxedo, starched shirt with wing collar, black bow tie and white waistcoat, black socks, and matte black shoes with rubber heels. He was assisted by front waiters in black evening coats, waistcoats, and trousers, starched shirts with wing collars, black bow ties, black socks, and matte black shoes with rubber heels. These latter oversaw a brigade of second waiters in white checkered spencer jackets, buttoned-up black vests, black trousers, starched white shirts with wing collars, white bow ties, black socks, and matte black shoes with rubber heels. As for the sommeliers who constantly verified the levels in each glass, they wore black tailcoats, vests, and trousers, starched white shirts with wing collars, black bow ties, and aprons of heavy black cloth with patch pockets and leather strings; an insignia depicting a gilded bunch of grapes was pinned to the left lapel of the tailcoat." ..."the restaurant manager was wearing a jacket and vest of gray fabric with black flecks, a starched white shirt and collar, a gray tie, striped trousers, black socks, black shoes, and impeccably silver hair."

Arrrrggghhh!

There is a point when one is creatively describing a scene and one is boringly showing off, and Echenov is most decidedly doing THE LATTER! ( )
  Quixada | Oct 13, 2009 |
Chris Reid, Time Out, quoted on the back of the dustjacket, says "Reading Echenoz's latest novel is like walking across a particularly elegant suspension bridge: confidence in the meticulous engineering does not dispel the vertiginous thrill of perceived fragility". Personally I thought it was pretty average.
2 stem jon1lambert | Oct 22, 2008 |
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In Piano, the musician protagonist Max spends the first section in a state of advanced alcoholism, to conquer stage fright, and the last two as dead, from which state he returns as "Paul" to the "urban zone" of life. A dead hero is entirely appropriate to classical subjects with Greek references. One could almost say that Max the pianist makes the transition from pathos to bathos when recycled as Paul. Others will no doubt invoke Virgil as Dante's guide through the Inferno, or even Sartre's "Hell is other people" from Huis Clos - to which, apart from the claustrophobia of the concert halls where Max performs, Piano happily bears no resemblance.
toegevoegd door kidzdoc | bewerkThe Independent, Amanda Hopkinson (Dec 9, 2004)
 
THE first page of Jean Echenoz's ''Piano'' offers an irresistible tease about its hero, Max Delmarc: ''He is afraid. He is going to die a violent death in 22 days but, as he is yet unaware of this, that is not what he is afraid of.'' Soon we follow Max, a pianist gripped by stage fright and alcoholism, beyond life to a triage center for the recently dead (where the help includes Dean Martin) and on to a comic vision of hell on earth -- all of which merely hints at the offbeat delights of Echenoz's fiction.

If ''Piano'' is not completely successful, it offers the excitement of a master novelist daring to explore new depths. Why does Max receive his eternal fate, good or bad? The decision seems arbitrary, which is entirely in line with Echenoz's fiction. However blithe they seem, his novels ask piercing questions that have no answers, yet evoke endlessly rich possibilities.
toegevoegd door kidzdoc | bewerkThe New York Times, Caryn James (Apr 25, 2004)
 

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Max Delmarc, age fifty, is a famous concert pianist with two problems: the first is a paralyzing stage fright for which the second, alcohol, is the only treatment. In this unparalleled comedy from the Prix Goncourt-winning French novelist Jean Echenoz, we journey with Max, from the trials of his everyday life, through his untimely death, and on into the afterlife. After a brief stay in purgatory--part luxury hotel, part minimum security prison, under the supervision of deceased celebrities--Max is cast into an alarmingly familiar partition of hell, "the urban zone," a dark and cloudy city much like his native Paris on an eternally bad day. Unable to play his beloved piano or stomach his needed drink, Max engages in a hapless struggle to piece his former life back together while searching in vain for the woman he once loved. An acclaimed bestseller with 50,000 copies sold in France, Piano is a sly, sardonic evocation of Dante and Sartre for the present day, the playful, daring masterpiece of a novelist at the top of his form.

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