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Alban Berg und seine Idole: Erinnerungen und Briefe
Alban Berg y sus ídolos es la singular evocación de un entorno intelectual y artístico irrepetible, el testimonio de unas vidas y la memoria de una amistad, en la escritura de uno de los autores más peculiares de la literatura alemana truncada por la mayor tragedia del siglo XX. Soma Morgenstern (Budzanów, Galitzia oriental, 1890 - Nueva York, 1976 ) novelista, crítico y autor dramático. Autor de la trilogía Destellos en el abismo y de Huida y fin de Joseph Roth (publicado también en este misma editorial).
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First published January 1, 1995
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Soma Morgenstern
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Soma (real name Salomo) Morgenstern spent his childhood in various villages in Galicia. His father worked as a bailiff, but was also a Jewish scholar and fulfilled the functions of a prayer leader in the area where the Morgensterns lived at that time.
Morgenstern's upbringing was not only religious but also multilingual. In his childhood memories Ukrainian was his first language, though Yiddish became his native tongue. He also learned ancient Hebrew in order to understand religious texts, and sometimes went to Polish, sometimes Ukrainian village schools, in which he was also taught German. German would later be the language in which he wrote, in large part because his father held the language in high esteem.
After he left grammar school Morgenstern went to Vienna to study law in 1912, where his studies were interrupted by his military service during the First World War, meaning he only graduated in 1921. Afterwards he worked as, among others, as the Vienna correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung and moved in the intellectual circles of Vienna, and was befriended by, for example, the composer Alban Berg and the authors Joseph Roth and Robert Musil.
In March 1938 he fled Vienna via France (where he was repeatedly detained as a "foreign enemy") to New York in 1941, where he lived until his death in 1976. His son Dan Morgenstern is a well-known jazz historian, critic, lecturer and archivist at Rutgers University.
Soma (real name Salomo) Morgenstern spent his childhood in various villages in Galicia. His father worked as a bailiff, but was also a Jewish scholar and fulfilled the functions of a prayer leader in the area where the Morgensterns lived at that time.
Morgenstern's upbringing was not only religious but also multilingual. In his childhood memories Ukrainian was his first language, though Yiddish became his native tongue. He also learned ancient Hebrew in order to understand religious texts, and sometimes went to Polish, sometimes Ukrainian village schools, in which he was also taught German. German would later be the language in which he wrote, in large part because his father held the language in high esteem.
After he left grammar school Morgenstern went to Vienna to study law in 1912, where his studies were interrupted by his military service during the First World War, meaning he only graduated in 1921. Afterwards he worked as, among others, as the Vienna correspondent for the Frankfurter Zeitung and moved in the intellectual circles of Vienna, and was befriended by, for example, the composer Alban Berg and the authors Joseph Roth and Robert Musil.
In March 1938 he fled Vienna via France (where he was repeatedly detained as a "foreign enemy") to New York in 1941, where he lived until his death in 1976. His son Dan Morgenstern is a well-known jazz historian, critic, lecturer and archivist at Rutgers University.
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January 25, 2020
Muy interesante recolección de recuerdos de la amistad del autor con Alban Berg, que duró diez años hasta la temprana muerte del músico. Es fascinante la recreación que hace Morgenstern de la sociedad vienesa de principios de siglo XX, donde coincidieron múltiples genios de la música, la literatura y la pintura, en aquel entorno de transicion de la burguesía decadente del imperio austrohúngaro hacia las nuevas realidades rampantes del nacionalsocialismo y el comunismo. Tiempo de revolución en las artes: surcan estas páginas, Schönberg, Webern, Roth, Zweig, Adorno, Musil, Walser... Las cartas intercaladas al mitad del libro tienen un interés variable; sin embargo la segunda mitad del libro es muy buena, con un final absorbente, incluyendo la sorprendente carta a Helene Berg y los comentarios del editor. Muy recomendable para entender la vida del autor de Wozzeck y Lulu y su entorno cultural y social.
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