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The Bath Fugues
The Bath Fugues
Brian Castro (born 1950)
English editions
Written in EnglishThe Bath Fugues
Wundor Editions · United Kingdom · 2019 · 350 pages
The Bath Fugues
Giramondo Publishing · Australia · May 2009 · Paperback · 374 pages
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Built like a fugue from three intertwined novellas, the book moves between distant places and times. In the first, Jason Redvers, a former art forger, tells his own story; the second turns to Camilo Conceição, a deformed poet, collector and opium user in Coimbra, Portugal; the third belongs to Judith Sarraute, once Jason's doctor, who studies the venom of jellyfish and has opened a gallery in tropical north Queensland. Their lives are bound by inheritance, friendship and betrayal, by forgery and rewriting, and by things that keep returning, such as baths, bicycles and clocks, while figures from the past, among them Montaigne, Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin, drift in and out.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Set in
- Australia, Portugal
- First published
- 2009
- Author's age
- 59 when first published
- ISBN
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9781920882556 (Giramondo Publishing, Australia)
9781999899622 (Wundor Editions, United Kingdom)
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