Maestro - Peter Goldworthy Book Report

Maestro Essay Peter Goldworthy's Maestro reaches its climax when Keller is about to reveal everything about his past to Paul. Paul realises afterwards that he "should have stayed, listened, poured out his schnapps, lubricated his tongue", "but the aroused, sexual present overwhelmed the past", and Paul left Keller and drove to Melbourne with Rosie. In the beginning Paul is unimpressed with Keller and Labels him as a "Nazi". Even when Paul's parents discover how important …

…poured out his schnapps and lubricated his tongue", and finally unveil why Keller had lost faith in the human race, but it was too late. It was not until Paul goes to be with Keller as he is dying that he finally accepts that he will never be a maestro like the great man that taught him, and that his world "was a foolish, innocent world, a world of delusion and felling and ridiculous dreams.