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Richly written, baroquely observant, and so terrifyingly erudite in its dizzying display of knowledge that some readers might be overwhelmed, this propulsive work explores the meaning of the Orient and the Orientalist impulse in the West, to use the narrator's historically suggestive terminology. In the opening pages, fussy, fusty Viennese musicologist Franz Ritter has taken to bed and spends a restless night recalling occasionally opiu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More