More specific, it’s a work of literary fiction exploring the position of music and composers is Stalin’s Soviet Russia. The Noise of Time is a novel about the integrity of an artist in hard times. He was doing his best to survive, not as a half-man or half-artist he accepted no boundaries around his art. And yet, some compromises had to be made. Being an engineer or engineered soul was far from his strivings. And he did not want to sacrifice his music. An artist should become half an artist: an optimistic, Power-guided engineer of human soul who honestly believes that Art belongs to people.ĭmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich did not run away, nor kill himself. They had the freedom to kill their self, to escape - or to be obedient and change the purpose or their art. … blown to bits by guns, then roughly sliced by surgeons.Īnd what about the extraordinary men? Artists did have some choice. They had already killed - and buried - his opera. There was a man, an artist, afraid for his life, the lives of beloved ones, his own moral integrity and, most of all, afraid for his music.
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