NP? "My Pen is Coarse and I am not Polite"
Doug Millison
millison at online-journalist.com
Sat Jul 20 13:03:01 CDT 2002
http://www.andante.com/magazine/article.cfm?id=17722
"My Pen is Coarse and I am not Polite":
Reading Mozart's Letters
"[...] Spaethling's translations were mostly ignored when Norton brought
them out in the United States. This is a pity, because the word-drunk
contrarian-vulgarian-comedian who emerges from Spaethling's excruciatingly
exact rendering of Mozart's linguistic games - his rhymes and his puns, his
scatological and coprophilic obsessions, his doublings, inversions and
mirrorings - is the essential Mozart [...]
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