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The Bath Fugues

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The Bath Fugues
First edition
AuthorBrian Castro
LanguageEnglish
PublisherGiramondo Publishing
Publication date
2009
Publication placeAustralia
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages355
ISBN9781920882556
Preceded byThe Garden Book 
Followed byStreet to Street 

The Bath Fugues is a 2009 novel by Australian novelist Brian Castro.

Plot summary

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The Bath Fugues is a novel of three sections, all interconnecting and modelled on the structure of the Goldberg variations. The first section, "Beckett's Bicycle", tells the story of Jason Redvers, an art forger and writer. The second, "Walter's Brief", concerns Redvers's grandfather Camilo Conceicao, a Portuguese poet. The last, "Sarraute's Surgery", is set in and around Port Douglas in Queensland and features local GP, Judith Sarraute, who had been Redvers's doctor when she was still practising in Sydney.

Notes

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Epigraph:

  • The Goldberg Variations...are a set of 30 variations for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach. First published in 1741...the work is considered to be one of the most important examples of variation form. It is named after Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, who may have been the first performer. Wikipedia
  • It is, in short, music which observes neither end nor beginning, music with neither real climax nor real resolution, music which like Baudelaire's lovers rests lightly on the wings of the unchecked wind. Glenn Gould

Reviews

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  • The Sydney Morning Herald[1]

Awards and nominations

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References

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