LiteratureThe Music of Erich Zann
The Music of Erich Zann concerns an impoverished student who hears extraordinary playing from an old musician’s attic and discovers that the room’s window opens onto something beyond the expected city. Written in December 1921 and first published in March 1922, the tale makes music an apparent act of resistance while withholding the explanation its frightened performer tries to write.
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