1.0Classical Musichttps://www.euroresidentes.com/euroresiuk/classical-musicBryan Rippinhttps://www.euroresidentes.com/euroresiuk/classical-music/author/bryan/Beethoven - again - Classical Musicrich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="fPY5awKPcc"><a href="https://www.euroresidentes.com/euroresiuk/classical-music/beethoven-again/">Beethoven – again</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://www.euroresidentes.com/euroresiuk/classical-music/beethoven-again/embed/#?secret=fPY5awKPcc" width="600" height="338" title="«Beethoven – again» — Classical Music" data-secret="fPY5awKPcc" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript">
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I have been reading an astonishing (i.e. weird, alarming, subtle, absorbing) book by Sebastian Faulks. Published in 2007, ‘Engleby’ is about a super-intelligent but utterly individual character who in the book tells his own story. It begins when he was an eight year old, beaten by his father, and it ends when he is a convicted psychopath, incarcerated without promise of ever being released in a High Security Special Hospital. At so many different levels the novel depicts a man with a brilliant but totally insular and amoral mind. Hardly bed-time reading,written with an unerving detachment. I was struck by