You see, at this point, the reader can see the parallels between the Cloud Atlas Sextet and Mitchell’s “Cloud Atlas” novel. In the 1st set, each solo is interrupted by its successor in the 2nd, each interruption is recontinued, in order. It is a work, he writes, for “piano, clarinet, ‘cello, flute, oboe and violin, each in its own language of key, scale and colour. One of his many (or is it few?) characters, Robert Frobisher, is writing a letter in 1931 to his friend and former lover Rufus Sixsmith and describing “a sextet for overlapping soloists” that he is composing and that, the reader knows, will be called the Cloud Atlas Sextet. And, more than three-quarters of the way through its pages, Mitchell includes a daring passage. “Cloud Atlas,” the 2004 novel by David Mitchell, is a daring book.
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