Book record
Mozart’s third brain
Göran Sonnevi
Translated from Swedish by Rika Lesser
Reading Mozart's third brain as part of this translated poetry project means letting Göran Sonnevi’s work reach English through Rika Lesser without requiring it to become immediately familiar. The book suggests Göran Sonnevi’s Mozart-haunted long-form intelligence, where music, politics, consciousness, and the world’s noise enter the same listening chamber. That matters because translation is not only a recovery of content; it is also a change in atmosphere, a new body for cadence, silence, and pressure. Published by Yale University Press, this entry gives readers a way to move through Sweden by way of language rather than tourism. I would keep the description rooted in feeling, image, and readerly permission.
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Language
- Swedish
- Country
- Sweden
- ISBN
- 9780300145809