Narrated by a man whose thoughts are his prostitutes, for ten points, identify this novel set in the Regency Cafe written in the form of a dialogue between the relative of a composer and this work's author, Denis Diderot.
One character in this novel is described as a tree which has made others growing near him wither up, but has carried his top to the sky and shades followers under his large branches. The narrator of this novel takes the title character to task for having "such reasonable ideas all mixed up higgledy piggledy with so many absurdities," such as when he accurately assesses that Legal and Philidor are masters of the activity of "pushing wood around," or playing chess. The title character of this work plays Locatelli on an imaginary violin and vehemently asserts that "the first musician who played Locatelli was the apostle of the new music," and that Piergolesi's Stabat should have been burned by the public hangman. After discussions of the Huguenot Calas and Franco-Italian music, the title character ends this novel by proclaiming that "he who laughs last laughs best." Narrated by a man whose thoughts are his prostitutes, for ten points, identify this novel set in the Regency Cafe written in the form of a dialogue between the relative of a composer and this work's author, Denis Diderot.
One character in this novel is described as a tree which has made others growing near him wither up, but has carried his top to the sky and shades followers under his large branches.
Rameau's Nephew [or Le Neveu de Rameau]