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An Equal Music
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A 1999 novel by Vikram Seth, An Equal Music follows the story of an English violinist, Michael, who is a member of a string quartet. Ten years ago as a student in Vienna, he and a pianist called Julia fell in love, but adverse circumstances and a misunderstanding separated them.Now he meets her again, although she is married with a son, and is also suffering hearing loss. This meeting sparks a journey which proves tumultuous, both regarding their musical careers and their love for each other.Together with violinist Philippe Honoré, Seth produced a CD of all the music mentioned or featured in the novel, including Franz Schubert's Trout Quintet and Ralph Vaughan Williams' The Lark Ascending. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: Brilliant musician Julia going deaf. | |
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Auction | |
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Auction: Piers bids recklessly for a violin, but perhaps fortunately for him, he loses. | |
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Unrequited Love Switcheroo | |
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Unrequited Love Switcheroo: Sort of. Both Michael and Julia continue to love each other throughout, but the young Michael was blinded by anger, and and at the end of the story Julia decides that she must stay with James (whom she loves). | |
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Teacher/Student Romance | |
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Teacher/Student Romance: As Michael and his French violin pupil Virginie. | |
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Reclusive Artist | |
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Reclusive Artist: In-Universe, Julia becomes one. | |
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Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl | |
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Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: This was the situation in Vienna; it ended tragically. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Michael and Julia come close to giving them to each other toward the end. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Michael, would it really have hurt to keep Julia's secret, to leave that letter alone, or to keep to yourself that you read it? Although from a certain point of view, perhaps it was all for the best... | |
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Second Love | |
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Second Love: James for Julia. | |
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Sympathetic Adulterer | |
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Sympathetic Adulterer: Julia qualifies. | |
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The One That Got Away | |
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The One That Got Away: Julia is this for the protagonist. Twice. | |
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Did Not Get the Girl | |
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Did Not Get the Girl: Michael loses Julia, and this affects the closest thing he does have to a relationship (a Teacher/Student Romance that is purely physical on his part due to him still being hung up on Julia ten years hence. | |
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Stalker with a Crush | |
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Stalker with a Crush: Michael gradually degenerates into this. | |
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Derailing Love Interests | |
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Derailing Love Interests: The love interest being derailed is the narrator. | |
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Betty and Veronica | |
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Betty and Veronica: Julia has the calm and grounded James, and the moody Anti-Hero (and narrator) Michael. | |
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Nostalgic Narrator | |
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Nostalgic Narrator: Michael becomes this for the flashbacks. | |
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Love at First Sight | |
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Love at First Sight: Julia and Michael's relationship is described as such. | |
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Deadpan Snarker | |
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Deadpan Snarker: Several characters qualify, but Michael most of all. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: Violist Helen, the only woman in the string quartet, remarks that "In the Quartetto Italiano, the woman was serially married to all three of the men." | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: In French, no less; at one point, Michael's violin student and sometimes lover Virginie gets fed up with him during a phone conversation and hangs up with a snap of "Va te faire foutre!" (Literally "Go fuck yourself", but used idiomatically to mean "Fuck you".) Another occurs near the end when Michael tells the woman who has repeatedly mistaken his number for that of the London Bait Company that she "can do whatever [she] fucking well like[s]". | |
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Unexpected Inheritance | |
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Unexpected Inheritance: Mrs. Formby's final letter. | |
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Anti-Hero | |
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Anti-Hero: The protagonist (and narrator) is a deeply flawed individual. | |
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True Companions | |
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True Companions: The novel is largely about the bond between four musicians performing as a string quartet. | |
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Internal Reveal | |
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Internal Reveal: Quite a dramatic and tragic one, involving a letter from Julia to her husband. Michael doesn't take it well. | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
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Despair Event Horizon: Michael spends a long time on the edge of this, unable to move, after Julia breaks up with him. | |
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Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder | |
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Absence Makes the Heart Go Yonder: Julia, although Michael was to blame. | |
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Food Slap | |
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Food Slap: An enraged Piers doles out the "drink thrown in face" (over head, to be precise) variant in response to an acquaintance/overly opinionated professional music critic who made very obnoxious comments about music. Even better, after receiving a snippy "Fuck you!", the critic in question continues to troll Piers till he snaps and makes with the punch. | |
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