Youth And The Bright Medusa (Large Print Edition) Book

"Hedger melted a little. 'My dear, I have the most expensive luxury in the world, and I am much more extravagant than Burton Ives, for I work to please nobody but myself.'
'You mean you could make money and don't? That you don't try to get a public?'
'Exactly. A public only wants what has been done over and over. I'm painting for painters, - who haven't been born.'

Os protagonistas destes contos de Willa Cather são artistas, músicos, mulheres e homens de algum modo relacionados com o mundo do espectáculo e das artes e, além de serem todos maravilhosamente caracterizados, têm em comum a inconformismo. Há aqui personagens lutadoras, insatisfeitas, audaciosas, vítimas da má-língua tanto por estarem à frente do seu tempo como por não se coadunarem com a tacanhez e a mesquinhez dos seus conterrâneos. Willa Cather é uma autora realmente especial.

"It was at the theatre and Carnegie hall that Paul really lived; the rest was but a sleep and a forgetting. This was Paul's fairy tale, and it had for him all the allurement of a secret love. The moment he inhaled the gassy, painty, dusty odour behind the scenes, he breathed like a prisoner set free, and felt within him the possibility of doing or saying splendid, brilliant things.

Coming, Aphrodite - 5*
The Diamond Mine - 4*
A Gold Slipper - 5*
Scandal - 3*
Paul's Case - 5*
A Wagner Matinée - 5*
The Sculptor's Funeral - 4*
"A Death in The Desert" - 3ª