If I remembered it correctly, the character Alyosha Karamazov plays guitar in Dos' novel, The Brothers Karamazov.
If I remembered it correctly, the character Alyosha Karamazov plays guitar in Dos' novel, The Brothers Karamazov.
It would be interesting ( for me alone perhaps) to find how many good writers actually played a musical instrument well or even composed tunes (looney or not). I think Anthony Burgess was a musician but offhand I cannot think of anyone else. I'm sure someone here will know if there were many.
The sister to the dwarf played clarinet in Vonnegut's "Cats Cradle".
Nothing resting in its own completeness
Can have worth or beauty; but alone
Because it leads and tends to farther sweetness,
Fuller, higher, deeper than its own.
He had a bagpipe, purchased from some Scottish soldiers passing through Guernsey, which he played among the rocks on the seashore at nightfall. He made gestures as though he were sowing seeds. What treatment can be expected for a man like that?
^Referring to Gilliatt from Hugo's Toilers of the Sea
"Gestures as though he were sowing seeds"! Trying to imagine what that would look like on a set of bagpipes. I take it they didn't show him how to play them. Yes Burgess was an accomplished musician.
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