by Theodor W. Adorno · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781844677924
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«Quasi una Fantasia» is Theodor W. Adorno's collection of essays on music, published by Verso Books in paperback (348 pages, in English).
Adorno brought together in this volume his own essays and articles of musical criticism written over more than three decades. The texts range from a study of Bizet's Carmen to a mordant look at the hierarchies of the audience, and include the «dialectical portrait» of Stravinsky, in which Adorno reconsiders and qualifies his earlier criticism of the composer. For Adorno, music is profoundly human because it can communicate inhumanity and, at the same time, resist it.
The subtitle of the work is Essays on Modern Music. Originally published in 1982, this title is part of Verso's Radical Thinkers series.
Suitable for readers interested in the philosophy of music, aesthetics, and twentieth-century cultural criticism.
