by Michael Ondaatje · Dtv · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783423123334
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«Buddy Boldens Blues» is Michael Ondaatje's novel about Buddy Bolden, published by Dtv in paperback (179 pages, in German).
Buddy Bolden, legendary cornetist of New Orleans and one of the founding figures of jazz, never recorded. Ondaatje reconstructs his life with photographs, interviews, tape transcripts and fictional monologues, composing a poetic and fragmentary portrait of a musician who lost his mind and ended up confined in a state hospital.
German translation by Adelheid Dormagen, published in 1997; the original «Coming Through Slaughter» appeared in 1976.
For readers of literary fiction and fans of jazz and early twentieth-century New Orleans.
Philip Michael Ondaatje is a Ceylon-born Canadian poet, fiction writer and essayist.
