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Michael J. Puri, Ravel the Decadent: Memory, Sublimation, and Desire (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011). viii + 272 pp. $24.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2014

Helen Julia Minors
Helen Julia Minors*
Affiliation:
Kingston University LondonH.Minors@kingston.ac.uk
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Nineteenth-Century Music Review , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , June 2014 , pp. 159 - 163
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2 Mawer, Deborah, The Ballets of Maurice Ravel: Creation and Interpretation (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011)Google Scholar; Mawer, Deborah, ed., Ravel Studies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010)Google Scholar. Other recent Ravel scholarship includes Kaminsky, Peter, ed., Unmasking Ravel: New Perspectives on the Music (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2011)Google Scholar, and Zank, Stephen, Irony and Sound: The Music of Maurice Ravel (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2009)Google Scholar.

3 Written between 1909 and 1922, and published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927, Proust's À la recherche du temps perdu once was known in English translation as ‘Remembrance of Things Past’, though more recently the title has been rendered more literally as ‘In Search of Lost Time’.

4 The aesthetic of Decadence often is referred to as ‘the Decadence’, a stylistic conceit of Puri's writing style in this book, and so shall be retained in this review.

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