The novel between the legislator of Mod Gabriel Chanel and the composer Igor Stravinsky did not last long – it began and ended in the summer of 1920 at the Bel Respiro villa. They did not yet know that they were on the threshold of glory, that each of them had to commit such a thing, “that the twentieth century would be embarrassed.”
Their passion, dazzling and tragic, gave rise to an unprecedented creative take -off: it was then that Stravinsky developed new principles of musical harmony, it was then that the spirits of Chanel No. 5 were created.
The book of Chris Greenholf, in which historical facts and author’s fantasy are combined, tells about the enthusiasm of passion and torment of creativity, about love and hatred, sensuality and sense of duty – all this contained one summer spent on the Villa of “Bel Respiro”.
Author
Greenholf Chris
Editor
Glebovskaya Alexandra Viktorovna
Translator
Sums Lyubov Borisovna
Publisher
Symposium, 2009
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