Ian Bostridge shares on these pages his passion for one of the most extraordinary and enigmatic works of Western music, the Schubertian cycle of Lieder Winter Trip, of which he is now one of his most celebrated performers. Examining one by one the twenty-four poems of Wilhelm Muller that make up him, he deciphers his riddles and subtle meanings, as well as the biographical circumstances of the comcompositor and the historical conditions that could intervene in the conception of one of the most perfect symbiosis of music and poetry. The result is a captivating and illustrative essay in which different knowledge, images and readings from Jean-Jacques Rousseau or Immanuel Kant, to Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Mary Shelley or Charlotte Bronto, to Samuel Beckett or Slavoj Zizek dialogue to make this unique journey to the heart of German romanticism an authentic adventure that will capture experts and neophytes alike.