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Mysterious Mozart

By Philippe Sollers
Translated by Armine Kotin Mortimer
University of Illinois Press; 192 pp. $40

Opening scene: a renowned French writer is taking a cab through the streets of Paris. The driver asks if he would mind a little music and puts on a recording of Mozart's Requiem (Karl Böhm, Vienna Phi...

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