Art historian Marina Raku is passionately exploring the phenomenon under the name «Wagner».
Art historian Marina Raku is passionately exploring the phenomenon under the name «Wagner». This major phenomenon includes not only the personality of the great composer and his biography, not only the world of his works, but also that rebellious transforming energy that, through creators such as Wagner, changes and moves human history forward. The Wagner Guidebook is a set of intertwining roads leading either to the mythological past depicted in his operas or to the complex character of this bright man. Marina Raku’s book reveals to us Wagner, a theater reformer and art theorist who influenced Nietzsche’s philosophy, Chekhov’s dramaturgy and Baudelaire’s poetry, world culture and history in general. And the fragments of his musical masterpieces, collected on the CD attached to the book, will allow us to get acquainted with the most striking examples of Wagner’s work.
Classics-XXI, book + 1 CD, 320 pages.