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Article: Inside Wagner's mind.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 11, 2004
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Byline: BARRY MILLINGTON
Richard Wagner: The Last of the Titans
by Joachim Kohler (Yale, [pounds sterling]29.95)
THE idea that more books have been written about Wagner than anyone except Jesus Christ and Shakespeare - or is it Shakespeare and Napoleon, or Jesus Christ and Abraham Lincoln, as an American variant has it? - is nothing more than a much-peddled myth. The literature on Wagner is indeed appropriately immodest in extent, but there's room for more when the addition is as revelatory as this one.
Joachim Kohler came to attention in English-speaking countries in 2000 with his book, Wagner's Hitler, a devastating exposition of ...