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The Great Concert of the Night

Name: The Great Concert of the Night
Author: Jonathan Buckley

Jonathan Buckley

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In the small hours of January 1st, a man begins to write, having watched Le Grand Concert de la Nuit, a film in which a former lover - Imogen - plays a major role. For the next year, he writes something every day.

His journal is a ritual of commemoration and an investigation of the character of Imogen and her relationships - with himself; with her family and friends; with other lovers.

Imogen is an elusive subject, and The Great Concert of the Night is an intricate text, mixing scenes from the writer's memory and the present day, and scenes from Imogen's films, with observations on a range of subjects, from the visions of female saints to the history of medicine and the festivals of ancient Rome. But one subject comes to occupy him above all: what happens when a person becomes a character on the page.

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s novel is both very entertaining and very sad-a book of high artifice that feels true. Addictive, elegiac, and pristinely paced.
Ultimately, Buckley'

t Jonathan Buckley better known? His novel of love, death and melancholy comedy, <i>The Great Concert of the Night</i>, is captivating.
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s beguiling tenth novel, is . . . an occasion for speculation, reflection, distraction, and aimless wonder. . . . This superb novel generates that strangely familiar sensation that something wonderful has been revealed, momentarily.
<i>The Great Concert of the Night</i>, Jonathan Buckley'

Admirable and frequently beautiful . . . aptly reflects the capriciousness of memory . . .

Buckley is a talented verbal painter, with a fine eye for detail.

What a pleasure to be immersed-lost really-in this elegant, erudite, seductive, and deeply moving chronicle of a sensibility and a life.

[O]ne reads this beautifully written book because the author provides food for thought with reflections on love, the imagination and death, laced with citations from Marcus Aurelius, Blaise Pascal and the Christian mystic Hildegard von Bingen. There is also a drolly comic side to the story . . .

"A quietly brilliant writer, almost eccentric in his craftsmanship."

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