Ariel Dorfman — Allegro

<p></p><p>In 1789 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart visits the grave of Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig, looking for a sign, a signal, an answer to an enigma that has haunted him since childhood: Was Bach murdered by a famous oculist? And years later, was Handel a victim of the same doctor?</p><p><em><strong>Allegro</strong></em> follows his investigation, from the salons of London to the streets of Paris, recreating an enthralling and turbulent time, full of rogues and brilliant composers, charlatans and presumptuous nobles. Running parallel to this search is the rise of Mozart, his knowledge and fame, his trials and losses.</p><p><br /></p><p>PURCHASE BOOK HERE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9781635424485?ic_referral=dYd3p-mwGyC6yvZ2-ryEs8xHUe7DHS21fDxf2UKPW9kwMzUWZUORtr7BkHr_g4syEJtKT2e96-2evwzzVSh1-4XVjwC1VSwMOaiqZ-qPPRE1iIapPjr30j--2j44K-_OhPFzLw</p><p><br /></p><p><strong>Ariel Dorfman </strong>is a Chilean-American author, born in Argentina, whose award-winning books in many genres have been published in more than fifty languages and his plays performed in more than one hundred countries. Among his works are the plays <em>Death and the Maiden</em> and <em>Purgatorio</em>, the novels <em>The Suicide Museum</em> (Other Press, 2023), <em>Widows</em>, and <em>Konfidenz</em>, and the memoirs <em>Heading South</em>, <em>Looking North</em> and <em>Feeding on Dreams</em>. He writes regularly for the <em>New York Times, Washington Post</em>, <em>Los Angeles Times</em>, <em>New York Review of Books</em>, <em>The Nation</em>, <em>The Guardian</em>, <em>El País</em>, and CNN. His stories have appeared in <em>The New Yorker</em>, <em>The Atlantic</em>, <em>Harper's</em>, <em>The Threepenny Review</em>, and <em>Index on Censorship</em>, among others. A prominent human rights activist, he worked as press and cultural advisor to Salvador Allende's chief of staff in the final months before the 1973 military coup, and later spent many years in exile. He lives with his wife Angélica in Santiago, Chile, and Durham, North Carolina, where he is the Walter Hines Page Emeritus Professor of Literature at Duke University.</p><p>*recorded 3/16/2025</p>