Books like All the World's Mornings

All the mornings of the world leave without ever returning I was wondering how to review that book. Its raw simplicity doesn’t make it easy. Narration has a contemplative pace, language is scanty and a bit clumsy, there’re no extensive descriptions here, almost no dialogues, protagonists don’t analyze their feelings and thoughts. It looks more like a sketch of the book, a draft. It’s like a piece of wood which needs to be planed, but if you look at it carefully then you’ll see the whole structure and rings and all that rugged beauty. And it’s all about the music. Music is the theme everything revolves around. What is this we call music ? Who is a great musician? Why do we make music and for whom ? For God, for glory, for gold, for the king ? Tous les matins du monde, melancholic and elegiac story, is based on the lives of two musicians of the French Baroque era, Sainte Colombe and Marin Marais.The teacher and his most known pupil. Quignard contrasts pain and solitude of Sainte Colombe with Marin’s ember and impatience. Music connects them but also becomes a bone of contention between them. When Sainte Colombe considers music as a mean of expression to tell about feelings which he couldn’t put into words, as a monologue, a lamentation comprehensible only by those who’s gone, Marin desires honours and finally becomes a music on king’s court. If I had to describe Monsieur Sainte Colombe with one word it would be – austerity. Years passed and Monsieur Marais every night is slipping out Versailles and then in darkness is listening at the door his master’s retreat. What is he looking for there? What is he waiting for ? There is something symbolical in the scene when being caught out on it asks his former teacher for last lesson. And Monsieur Sainte Colombe offers him the first one. So, what the music is and for whom do we make it ? A refreshment for those who've run out of words. for the shadow of children , for the state in which we are before we're born, before we breathed or saw light?