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I’ve read this book in a perspective which goes beyond-Soviet-Russia, trying to understand a hypothetical universal appeal in the inner monologues of Barnes’ Shostakovich. Do you think a reader can find in its pages a very interesting view about the meaning of artistic dissidence in the former East European regimes?
Bonnie The larger questions Barnes explores are about Truth, Art, and Power (not mere leadership, but heartless Power that lives only for its own sake). Can …moreThe larger questions Barnes explores are about Truth, Art, and Power (not mere leadership, but heartless Power that lives only for its own sake). Can an artist 'speak' Truth to Power and remain alive? Remain productive? Remain heard? Remain truthful? Questions for our own times. Good to keep that wider perspective!(less)
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