The Night Circus is a story about community, and about the stories that create a community.
The duel itself is not really Celia and Marco’s story, but rather a it’s the tale of their respective mentors, who hover on the outskirts of every important event in the novel, manipulating everything from the shadows. But this is only a surface level examination of the plot of The Night Circus. The most obvious comparison is to Christopher Priest’s The Prestige, a classic novel about a staged duel between two competing stage magicians. The Night Circus centres around a duel between two young, promising magicians, Celia Bown and Marco Alasdair, thrust unbeknownst into competition against each other at a young age by their competing mentors. The entire circus glistens with excitement. The line for tickets snakes around the outside of the fence. He identifies signage that needs to be adjusted or elevated to be easier to read, doors that are not visible enough and others that are too predominant, drawing too little attention or too much of a crowd.īut these are minute details, really, extra oil for inaudible squeaking. Instead, he wanders through pathways and concourses and walks in loops around the courtyard with Marco in tow, who is taking notes whenever Chandresh finds something to comment upon.Ĭhandresh watches the crowd, discerning how people decide which tents to enter. I’ve been lucky enough to have this experience twice in the last handful of months first with The Tiger’s Wife by Tea Obreht ( REVIEW) and now with The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.Ĭhandresh Christophe Lefèvre enters not a single tent on opening night. Even after that final page is turned though, these novels live in my memory, constanly ekeing their way into my thoughts and colouring my discussion of other, inferior novels. Every so often, a novel comes along that knocks me off my feet, ties me up and leaves me bound, unable to escape until I turn its final page.
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