Martín Llade presents this afternoon The Razumovsky Thriller, his second novel, within the La Madriguera bookstore. The composer Ludwig van Beethoven stars in a piece the place he acts as an newbie detective. The homicide of a maid within the palace of Razumovsky, the composer’s patron and Russian ambassador in Vienna, illuminates a plot of thriller that shakes the capital of Austria in 1814, the date of the Congress of Vienna.
Beethoven’s investigations result in a spiral of homicide makes an attempt and crimes across the Razumovski home that will have their origin “within the political battle of the victors in opposition to Napoleon or within the rely’s personal previous,” Llade emphasizes.
The writer joins the “vogue” of the historic thriller. The looks of detective novels that rework the biography of their well-known protagonists is a literary useful resource that’s accepted by many readers. An vital a part of the latest fiction manufacturing “turns well-known folks like Gonzalo de Berceo and Miguel de Unamuno into detectives”, two unlikely investigators of occasions if we take a look at their actual avatars.
“Why not Beethoven,” Llade asks. «I feel now we have a path to discover that may make readers who’re music lovers change into and people people who find themselves not accustomed to classical music all of a sudden take pleasure in historic recreation, police plots and study and get nearer to those. music figures.
To every chapter of The Razumovsky Thriller and there are eighty of them, it’s accompanied by a bit of music by Beethoven that may be discovered on a Spotify record chosen by the writer of the novel.
Llade’s Beethoven, deaf as the nice composer grew to become, “can learn lips.” As well as, “it identifies the nationality of individuals by their strolling rhythm.” The German is just not the one musician current within the e-book; Different well-known composers reminiscent of Antonio Salieri, Franz Schubert and Louis Spohr additionally seem.
As well as, personalities such because the Russian Tsar Alexander I, Emperor Francis of Austria, King Frederick William III of Prussia, and different princes, princesses and nobles have been current on the Congress of Vienna. Likewise, the textual content refers back to the Spanish ambassador of Ferdinand VII in Vienna, Pedro Gómez Labrador.
NEW YEAR CONCERT. Llade has been, since 2018, the voice of the New Yr’s Live performance in Spain, “essentially the most watched broadcast on January 1” as its presenter on public tv recollects. It’s a “very established” custom, however in recent times, and inspired by digital dialog, it has renewed this situation.
«I see that, all of a sudden, there’s motion on social networks: there’s speak, though many individuals, maybe, don’t take heed to extra concert events in the course of the yr. However he makes his contribution,” Llade proclaims.
