Status Updates From Le chef-d'oeuvre inconnu

this 👆 coming from a classical player incidentally... still an astute match for the unknown masterpiece, however

the exhaustive, monotonous sections involving musical descriptions (i'm assuming balzac is deliberate with it to demonstrate the true measure of gambara's obsessions and capacity for verbal reasoning in contrast and to show by example the effect on the recipient of the artwork when there's "too much of a good thing"), though miraculously well-incorporated into the easy flow, is supposed to lower my rating somewhat