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The Memoirs by Hector Berlioz5/27/2023 I am now barely 100 pages into this screamer, after having recently concluded reading the magisterial and sympathetic two-volume biography of Berlioz by David Cairns (who also provides the perfect translation of these Memoirs). Well, add "The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz" to that short list. And how trenchantly - even scathingly - funny that particular work is, even to the point where some folks have fun citing extended passages at will, out loud, just for the "yuks" it contains. Anyone familiar with the works of Oscar Wilde will of course know where the "take-off" above comes from.
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