A Mammal's Notebook, Erik Satie & Ornella VoltaThis is the largest selection, in any language, of the writings of Erik Satie (1866 1925). Although once dismissed as an eccentric, Satie has come to be seen as a key influence on modern music, and his writings reveal him as one of the most beguiling of absurdists, in the mode of Lewis Carroll or Edward Lear but with a strong streak of Dadaism (a movement in which he participated). The nonconformism of Satie's private life seems deliberately