1. Philip Roth's The Ghost Writer has a chapter titled "Married To Tolstoy" about favorite Rothian theme of the pain great writers inflict on the near & dear. Could easily be Married to Dickens, Married to Woolf, Married to Cheever, Married to Naipaul, etc.
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4. Gould was a genius, Fulford not that, in fact a poor student who dropped out of high school to become a sports writer. Yet through the spark of his friendship with Gould Fulford ended becoming, unexpectedly, a writer & critic of distinction. More here:https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/robert-fulford-glenn-gould/ …
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nice mansplaining
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But the real Salieri did not bear a grudge against the real Mozart.
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Bernhard's The Loser is about (a fictional version of) Gould and two men who studied and roomed with him at the Mozarteum and are compelled to destroy themselves in response. At least, they blame being in the presence of genius but they weren't exactly well to begin with.
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