Variations on the Beast

Variations on the Beast chronicles the perverse parallel of a musical genius' rise to the peak of the world of high culture while the Weimar Republic collapses into the brutality of Nazism.�As the twisted episodes of his life unfold,�the novel's scope expands to include historical figures such as Goebbels, Goring, and the composer Richard Strauss, as art and fascism wrestle with each other in a world gone mad.