Follow him on Twitter at on his brand new Facebook page. He’s at work on a book about Los Angeles, A Los Angeles Primer. James Joyce’s “Dirty Letters” to His Wife (1909)Ĭolin Marshall hosts and produces Notebook on Cities and Culture and writes essays on cities, Asia, film, literature, and aesthetics. Richard Feynman’s Letter to His Departed Wife: “You, Dead, Are So Much Better Than Anyone Else Alive” (1946) Slavoj Žižek Examines the Perverse Ideology of Beethoven’s Ode to Joyīeethoven’s Ode to Joy Played With 167 Theremins Placed Inside Matryoshka Dolls in Japan You may remember them from our post on the drawings Dostoyevsky did as he wrote his novels, and from there you can draw the correct conclusion that the site offers a deep well of intriguing works in progress, pieces of correspondence, cris de coeur, and various combinations thereof.
Still, don’t let that stop you from drawing your own conclusions, such as you can from examination of the pages themselves, also available for perusal at Fu$k Yeah Manuscripts.
Only tomorrow is my lodging positively fixedĭespite the best efforts of Beethoven’s biographers (and of the widely disputed theory on which the aforementioned movie operates), ignorant we remain of the identity of the Immortal Beloved to whom Beethoven addressed such words of passion. However the letter itself was discovered after Beethoven’s death in a secret drawer where he also kept the Heiligenstadt Testament, some savings and some pictures.” There you can find images of the letter in question (the first two pages appear above, the second two below) and a translation from, faithful right down to the composer’s line breaks, which begins as follows: “Sadly we will never know for certain who it was. But have you seen the actual artifact that inspired it? “Around 1812 Beethoven wrote a long letter (10 pages) to a woman who he was obviously quite taken with,” says the blog LvB and More.
Find the cheapest option or how to watch with a free trial. If you’ve ever seen the 1994 feature film where Gary Oldman plays Ludwig van Beethoven, you know the significance of the words “Immortal Beloved” from which it takes its title. Is Immortal Beloved (1994) streaming on Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, HBO Max, Peacock, or 50+ other streaming services Find out where you can buy, rent, or subscribe to a streaming service to watch it live or on-demand.