The wounded dragon

Viac o knihe

Korean-German composer, Isang Yun (1917-1995), his life and music reflect major upheaval of the Cold War in Asia and Europe, and who strove to combining East Asian performing practice with European instruments, expressing his Eastern, specifically Taoist, imagination in contemporary Western musical terms. Wounded Dragon is Isang Yun's biography written in dialogue form by the German novelist, Luise Rinser (1911-2002). Rinser was Yun's friend and could understand his political suffering because she also had received a death sentence, for high treason under Nazism. She interviewed Yun, and taped and wrote in shorthand his additional somewhat parenthetical comments. It was originally published in 1977 by S. Fischer in German and a Japanese version of it appeared in 1980.