#403 Couple of Lovers on Red Background- Rebecca Makkai
She is going through a loss, grief or just a mental crisis,
but the narrator is having a delusion, quite a great delusion in fact. She
believes that Johan Sebastian Bach has come back to live, came out of her piano
and is now living in her apartment.
It’s a charming story, the narrator goes through all the
mind experiments you would expect to make the story work. What CD’s would Back
listen to? You should probably turn off the TV, that much of a technology and
cultural leap would shock him back to death.
Whether this is just a dream she was having after hitting
her head, or a mental coping mechanism to get over a tough break-up, the
metaphor of her literally living with the music she loves is a strong one.
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