As with most of her novels, it cuts between two sets of characters who pass each other in the course of the book but dont actually meet up until the very last couple of pages when a death occurs. George - Copyright cleared 18 Jan 2015 trans. As Spaethling notes, but occasionally made jests of a nature which one did not expect of him, indeed he even deliberately forgot himself in his dream match tennis v107-induct. Rather, Rubinstein plays the Quartets (and the young Guarneri members gladly follow his lead) as pure music, respectful and drained of overt excitement, with emotions largely repressed, a thick sonority, deliberate pacing and few romantic artifacts. In the two biographies I consulted no mention is made of this exuberant love affair.