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Dutch novelist de Moor (Duke of Egypt) traces narrative arabesques throughout the terrible charming jealousy suffered by the blind music critic in this free, delicate book. In a series of chance encounters at Western european airports over the years, the musicologist narrator matches the famous blind patrician music critic, Marius vehicle Vlooten, and extracts his background of tortured love. The first face elicits the anxious story of unrequited love that drove Marius, as a student years before, to blast himself in the head, thus blinding himself. The acquaintance between the two travelers goes on quickly, allowing the narrator to add Marius to lovely Suzanna Flier, first violinist of the Schulhoff Quartet, who becomes Marius's wife. Ten years later, on the way to the Salzburg Event, the narrator learns that Suzanna has left Marius because he tried to wipe out her, his jealousy roused by her love (he promises) for the violist in her quartet. Marius's obsession with Janácek's Kreutzer sonata provides the novel's leitmotif; in line with the critic, "wayward modernist" Janácek "put things in his music that were meant not limited to the listening ear canal but also for the inner eyes." De Moor's slender, suspenseful narrative frequently shifts options and moods, but Marius's idée fixe melts away with a regular fireplace. Though de Moor sometimes stokes the blaze too high, this can be an involving, passionate story.
