I didn't want to like it because I kept thinking that if Mahler had still been alive in Vienna at the time of the Anschluß, the Nazis, for whom von K. so obligingly rollled over, would have done him in posthaste
More generally: we want to believe that great musicians, poets, novelists, painters, etc.are morally admirable human beings, taught compassion and insight through their art. But the proportion of admirable human beings to scoundrels seems to be about the same for great artists as for the rest of us.
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