Boris Lensky

Boris Lensky

Transcriber's Note: 1. Page scan source: http://books.google.com/books?id=VTMZAAAAYAAJ 2. Ossip Schubin is the pseudonym for Lola Kirschner. 3. There are 4 missing words or two-word phrases in the 3d para., Page 54; and 6 missing words or two-word phrases in the 2nd para. page 55. Missing text is indicated with "[...]" sequences. "Boris Lensky! The name in itself has a legendary sound--a magic fascination surrounds the man and his violin. For every one who has attended one of his concerts, the longing, listening expression on the faces of the women who hear him is something which remains forever interwoven in remembrance with the complaining sweetness of his art. The best and noblest of women, when they listen to his wonderful violin, fall into a feverish trance which makes them lose all power over themselves. "Almost fifty years ago, crept through the poorest quarter of Moscow a neglected, ugly child, who, in order to earn his scanty food, scraped his violin as best he might, and sometimes received a copeck, but never a caress. This child was Boris Lensky. His heart languished for tenderness, like that of all repulsed ones. Then the devil met him, and allured him with splendid temptations. He would lay the whole world at his feet, if the boy would give him his soul for his own in exchange. But the boy felt a terror at this hellish slavery and said: 'No.' Then the devil at first went his way, and gnashed his teeth that he had not succeeded in capturing a human soul. But suddenly he turned back and called to the boy: 'I desire nothing of you; keep your soul; but you shall accept a present from me--a gift. In your art shall dwell a charm which no one can resist.' ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 35491
Author: Schubin, Ossip
Release Date: Mar 5, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Translator: Lathrop, Elise