Launch of John Spurling’s Book of Liszts London 2011
Wednesday, 25 May 2011 19:00 Hungarian Cultural Centre
Liszt Year 2011 - Hungarian Cultural Centre
John Spurling - writer
János Balázs - piano
Jilly Bond - reading, introduced by the writer
Vali Tóth - presenter
Music by Ferenc Liszt
John Spurling is a playwright and novelist. Since his first play MacRune’s Guevara was performed by the National Theatre Company in 1969, he has had some 27 plays produced on stage, television and radio. His first two novels, The Ragged End and After Zenda, were published in 1989 and 1995.
His latest novel, A Book of Liszts, is in the unusual form of fifteen self-contained chapters in different styles from different points of view. It celebrates with humour and passion the extraordinary life of the great Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt, born 200 years ago this year, whose incomparable skill and personal charisma dazzled audiences all over Europe. A Book of Liszts will be published on May 17th by Seagull Books in their World Literature series.
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