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'''''The Secret Knowledge''''' is the seventh [[novel]] by Scottish writer [[Andrew Crumey]]. it is his first since returning to his original UK publisher [[Dedalus Books]], and was awarded a grant by the [[Arts and Humanities Research Council]]<ref>Acknowledgement in book.</ref>. Part of the writing was done while the author was visiting fellow at the [[Institute of Advanced Study (Durham)]]<ref>Acknowledgement in book.</ref>. |
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'''''The Secret Knowledge''''' is a [[novel]] by [[Andrew Crumey]]. |
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In 1913 composer Pierre Klauer envisages marriage to his sweetheart and fame for his new work, The Secret Knowledge. Then tragedy strikes. A century later, concert pianist David Conroy hopes the rediscovered score might revive his own flagging career. Music, history, politics and philosophy become intertwined in a multi-layered story that spans a century. Revolutionary agitators, [[Holocaust]] refugees and sixties’ student protesters are counterpointed with artists and entrepreneurs in our own age of austerity. All play their part in revealing the shocking truth that Conroy must finally face – the real meaning of The Secret Knowledge.<ref>http://www.dedalusbooks.com/our-books/book.php?id=00000243 Book cover description.</ref> |
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==Themes== |
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According to Times Literary Supplement reviewer Paul Griffiths: |
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The novel is in part concerned with the concepts of the [[multiverse]] and [[quantum suicide]], which have featured in previous novels by Crumey, and in articles and conference talks.<ref>http://aeon.co/magazine/world-views/can-the-multiverse-explain-the-course-of-history/ Essay in Aeon magazine</ref><ref>http://www.crumey.toucansurf.com/quantum_suicide.html Talk given at "Literature and Mathematics: figures, topoi and transferences across the disciplines", Aberdeen University Centre for Modern Thought, June 11, 2010</ref>. Specific reference is made to the anarchist [[Louis-Auguste Blanqui]], and the philosophers [[Walter Benjamin]] and [[Theodor Adorno]], both of whom appear as characters in the novel. Reference is made to motifs from Crumey's earlier novels, particularly the Rosier Corporation which appeared in [[Mobius Dick]]. The missing wife of pianist Gerald Conroy (called Laura) appears to be the same character of that name who appears in [[Mobius Dick]]. |
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"A mystery tale that leaps between a washed-up pianist in [[London]] and assorted European intellectual heavyweights, with a pioneering socialist and a clandestine head of esoteric initiates in its background, Andrew Crumey's seventh novel finds the author up to his old tricks. Crumey begins his story in [[Paris]] in 1913, a date perhaps chosen for its significance both to modern music (the premiere of [[The Rite of Spring]]) and [[quantum theory]] (the [[Bohr model]] of the atom). A young composer at a peak moment - out at a fair with his fiancee on his arm and his first major work locked away back home - suddenly vanishes, only to pop up again six years later as a political agitator in [[Scotland]]. As Crumey's readers will immediately recognize, we have entered one of his mirrored boxes of many worlds. Pierre Klauer, a [[Schrodinger's cat]] writ large, is simultaneously dead in Paris and alive on Clydeside."<ref> |
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* [http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/aug/16/secret-knowledge-andrew-crumey-review Guardian review] |
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* [http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17331714-the-secret-knowledge Goodreads.com] |
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The Secret Knowledge is the seventh novel by Scottish writer Andrew Crumey. it is his first since returning to his original UK publisher Dedalus Books, and was awarded a grant by the Arts and Humanities Research Council[1]. Part of the writing was done while the author was visiting fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study (Durham)[2].
Synopsis
In 1913 composer Pierre Klauer envisages marriage to his sweetheart and fame for his new work, The Secret Knowledge. Then tragedy strikes. A century later, concert pianist David Conroy hopes the rediscovered score might revive his own flagging career. Music, history, politics and philosophy become intertwined in a multi-layered story that spans a century. Revolutionary agitators, Holocaust refugees and sixties’ student protesters are counterpointed with artists and entrepreneurs in our own age of austerity. All play their part in revealing the shocking truth that Conroy must finally face – the real meaning of The Secret Knowledge.[3]
Themes
The novel is in part concerned with the concepts of the multiverse and quantum suicide, which have featured in previous novels by Crumey, and in articles and conference talks.[4][5]. Specific reference is made to the anarchist Louis-Auguste Blanqui, and the philosophers Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno, both of whom appear as characters in the novel. Reference is made to motifs from Crumey's earlier novels, particularly the Rosier Corporation which appeared in Mobius Dick. The missing wife of pianist Gerald Conroy (called Laura) appears to be the same character of that name who appears in Mobius Dick.
References
- ^ Acknowledgement in book.
- ^ Acknowledgement in book.
- ^ http://www.dedalusbooks.com/our-books/book.php?id=00000243 Book cover description.
- ^ http://aeon.co/magazine/world-views/can-the-multiverse-explain-the-course-of-history/ Essay in Aeon magazine
- ^ http://www.crumey.toucansurf.com/quantum_suicide.html Talk given at "Literature and Mathematics: figures, topoi and transferences across the disciplines", Aberdeen University Centre for Modern Thought, June 11, 2010
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