He was catlike and solitary, as he was artistic and amorous. . . . Feline . . . is the adjective most used to suggest his walk, his manner, his particular kind of acrid wit, his playfulness, his sulks, and, most of all, the voluptuousness that colored his whole relation to life and art.
This engaging character was Achille-Claude Debussy, who died in 1918. He had to wait until last week and the appearance of his first American biography*his third in Englishfor a book that would do justice to his lush Bohemian personality and...
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