The Music Teacher

So here we have a music teacher who is about to become a fifty something, with great skills and talents to play the piano but to whom the word "success" have many dark undertones. Firstly because he feels that the love of music does not have any need of it, and secondly out of the failure of his first marriage, largely as a consequence of his wife obssesion with it, and its willingness to ignore and set aside all persons who might interfere with such purpose. Then, while he feels at ease with himself, and nothing new seems to occur in his life one of his new students will propel him again the the world of performances and the slavery of critics with painful consequences.I give it five stars not because it is a great piece of literature, but the author do have the power to convey how for someone whose life is truly absorbed by music and the pleasure it provides to our soul, even when arbitrary persons and absurd emotions cloggle their everyday life, music will provide unshakable foundations to return them to their center. The dialogs are a secondary issue, because music is the only "feeling" that truly matters and it does not need success to exist.