Taking his cue from an anecdote connected with Bach's late masterpiece, the Goldberg Variations, Gabriel Josipovici imagines an English writer, a Jew, at the turn of the eighteenth century, who is invited to the house of a country gentleman in order to read him to sleep. What follows can be read as a set of disconnected stories on the most varied of topics - incest in the Orkneys, madness in Chester, a poetic competition at the court of George III, a marital quarrel, weaving past and present until it reached its bizarre climax.
Part homage to Bach, part pure fiction and part evocation of echoes from the past - the ghosts of Holderlin, Kierkegaard and many others haunts its pages, this is a book as exciting and thought-provoking as any Josipovici has written, from his Bonnard-inspired Contre-Jour to his hilarious dialogue-novel, Now.
| ISBN: | 9781857545975 |
| Publication date: | 21st November 2002 |
| Author: | Gabriel Josipovici |
| Publisher: | Carcanet Fiction an imprint of Carcanet Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 189 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |