Submitted by Leslie Brisman, Feb 11, 2007 18:27

How could Ms. Shaw miss the uneartly beauty of this magnificent piece? Even the Dionysian dream fits seamlessless into the larger, lyrical pattern. Thomas Mann would have loved it--if not as a most unusual, most sensitive retelling of his own plaintive tale, than as a first-rate work of art with a poignance all its own.

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