However, the circus is nothing but an elaborate setting for a game that the two have been bound to play - the game is a product of a sort of rivalry between Celia’s father and Marco’s adopted father. Set at the close of the 19th century and the dawn of the 20th century, making The Night Circus a fin de siècle book, the tale involves an illusionist named Celia and a similar non-performing illusionist of sorts named Marco who are involved with the circus that has been created. (Not always a feeling I get with the real-life Cirque, because some of their productions just seem to be so cloying and saccharine.) Now, I’ve never been to a Cirque du Soleil show, but the thing about the fictional circus in this book is that it feels so real and so cool that you honestly want to go. Acrobats can perform from dizzying heights without falling. Contortionists can really bend their way into a small box. While the two circuses share a sense of panache, the thing that distinguishes author Erin Morgenstern’s creation is that it is fuelled by honest to god magic. The book’s setting is a touring circus that is only accessible by night and is called Le Cirque des Rêves. The 2011 fantasy novel The Night Circus is clearly modeled on Canada’s Cirque du Soleil.
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