L apiculteur maxence fermine biography
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The Black Violin
There were many musical souls adrift on that raft of silence that is Venice. There was the music of Johannes Karelsky.There was the music of Erasmus, the violin maker. And there was the music of war. But of that, the two men never spoke.
From the internationally acclaimed author of Snow comes a timeless tale of love and music set against the romantic backdrop of eighteenth-century Venice.
In 1797, the violin prodigy Johannes Karelsky arrives in Venice after fighting with Napoleon's army in the Italian campaign. After the war, he boards with an aged violin maker named Erasmus who created the legendary "Black Violin," which he forbids Johannes to touch because, as he says, "Once you have tasted it, you will never be the same again." Johannes becomes obsessed with the idea of playing this violin as well as finding the woman who saved his life when he was injured in battle.
Beautifully written and highly evocative, The Black Violin interweaves Johannes's quest f
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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Romance
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- 843.92 — Literature French & related literatures French fiction 1900- 2000-
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- PQ2666.E6955 A8713 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures French literature Modern literature 1961-2000
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Fermine, Maxence 1968-
PERSONAL:
Born 1968, in Albertville, France. Education: Attended University of Paris.
ADDRESSES:
Agent—c/o Author Mail, Atria Books, Simon & Schuster, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020.
CAREER:
Author and poet.
WRITINGS:
Neige, 1999, translation by Chris Mulhern published as Snow, Atria Books (New York, NY), 2003.
L'apiculteur (title means "The Bee Keeper"), Feryane (Paris, France), 2000.
(With Olivier Besson) Sagesses et malices de Confucius, le roi sans royaume (title means "Wisdoms and Mischievousnesses of Confucius, the King without a Kingdom"), Albin Michel (Paris, France), 2001.
Opium, Albin Michel (Paris, France), 2002.
Le violon noir, translation by Chris Mulhern published as The Black Violin, Atria Books (New York, NY), 2003.
Billiard Blues: suivi de Jazz blanc et Poker, Albin Michel (Paris, France), 2003.
SIDELIGHTS:
French author and poet Maxence Fermine's first book, Neige, translate