In no particular order, a living list of my favorites:
FICTION
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (particularly Chapter 8), Calvino.
Josephine the Singer, or, the Mouse Folk, Kafka.
ESSAYS
The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche.
Letters to a Young Poet, Rilke.
The Origin of the Work of Art, Heidegger.
"The Storyteller", Benjamin.
MUSIC
Lempicka (particularly "I Will Paint Her" and "Just This Way"), Gould + Kreitzer.
"Finishing the Hat", Sondheim.
"Now Feels Bigger than the Past", Stevens.
Preludes, Malloy.
OTHER WORKS
Faust, "2. Prelude on the Stage", Goethe.
Ramon Subercaseaux in a Gondola, Singer Sargent.
If you'd leave your favorites in the comments, I'd love to seek them out. I adore art on art.
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