On my other Web log today I got gabbing about this story by Turgenev, "The Song of Triumphant Love." I got thinking about it the other day because Halloween is coming up.
That story is the scariest story I think I have ever read.
You can read it in its entirety by clicking on the link. I recommend it! Well, maybe I should not recommend it.
As I wrote on my other Web log I was so scared that the night after I read it I could not sleep and was too scared even to get out of bed.
What got me reading that story was a CD that matched the story up with music that appeared to go with it, some of it by the singer and composer Pauline Viardot, who for a while was mixed up with Turgenev, although I have not gotten around to researching the details. Oh, look, the English critic Jessica Duchen has written a book apparently about the two of them, "Songs of Triumphant Love."
Maybe this is a romance I should read about!
I wonder if it was as frightening as that story!
This being the wonderful age of the Internet you can peek at excerpts of the book here. Now I am not sure if it is a novel set in the present day, affected somehow by, God forbid, that story "The Song of Triumphant Love." Whatever it is, it looks like an interesting project.
There is also a ballet, "The Song of Triumphant Love."
Not sure I would want to see it!
