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This brings to memory another martyr to
style, Gustave Flaubert, who for forty years in a room at
Croisset, near Rouen, wrestled with the devils of syntax and
epithet. Chopin was of an impatient, nervous disposition. All the
more remarkable then his capacity for taking infinite pains. Like
Balzac he was never pleased with the final "revise" of his work,
he must needs aim at finishing touches. His letters at this
period are interesting for the Chopinist but for the most part
they consist of requests made to his pupils, Fontana, Gutmann and
others, to jog the publishers, to get him new apartments, to buy
him many things. Wagner was not more importunate or minatory than
this Pole, who depended on others for the material comforts and
necessities of his existence. Nor is his abuse of friends and
patrons, the Leos and others, indicative of an altogether frank,
sincere nature. He did not hesitate to lump them all as "pigs"
and "Jews" if anything happened to jar his nerves. Money, money,
is the leading theme of the Paris and Mallorean letters.


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