WAR AND ART - Memoirs of a Hungarian Childhood (Part III)
WAR AND ART - Memoirs of a Hungarian Childhood (Part III)

Summary/Abstract: Death and Art. The Russians had a curious fascination with music. I listened to their songs, their beloved balalaika and watched their gravity defying acrobatic dances. Dancing and singing, the Russians claimed to hear “language beyond the mind” (zaumni iazik). Language beyond the mind. Before beginning to write Tolstoy habitually seated himself at the piano. When he sat beside Tchaikovsky and listened to the composer’s Quartet, he began to sob at the andante, before everybody.

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