Ecrire with Beethoven

• Paris, Honoré Champion, ‘Dialogue des Arts’ series, 2023
• ISBN: 9782745359889
• 282 pages
• Price: €45
• Publication date: 3 October 2023

Beethoven, hero of Europe; Beethoven, a titan whose work was Nietzschean before Nietzsche; Beethoven, an artist who was both a virgin and deaf, a lover of music alone; Beethoven, an aesthetic model for writers: this volume examines the circulation of these mythic themes in European literature. We thus discover how, from Hoffmann to Kundera via Balzac, Claudel, Suarès, Rolland, Gide, Du Bos, Forster, Lorca, Zweig, Romains, Adorno, Beckett and Barthes, European writers sometimes pit the composer against himself in order to defend him against his own myth.