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The Plains
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Author : Gerald Murnane
language : en
Publisher: Text Publishing
Release Date : 2017-04-03
The Plains written by Gerald Murnane and has been published by Text Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-03 with Fiction categories.
This is the story of the families of the plains—obsessed with their land and history, their culture and mythology—and of the man who ventured into their world. First published in 1982, The Plains is a mesmerising work of startling originality. This handsome new hardback edition is introduced by Ben Lerner, author of the internationally acclaimed novels Leaving the Atocha Station and 10:04, and a work of criticism, The Hatred of Poetry.
A Million Windows
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Author : Gerald Murnane
language : en
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
Release Date : 2014-06-01
A Million Windows written by Gerald Murnane and has been published by Giramondo Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-01 with Fiction categories.
This new work of fiction by one of Australia’s most highly regarded authors focuses on the importance of trust, and the possibility of betrayal, in storytelling as in life. It tests the relationship established between author and reader, and on occasions of intimacy, between child and parent, boyfriend and girlfriend, husband and wife. Murnane’s fiction is woven from images, and the feelings associated with them, and the images that flit through A Million Windows like butterflies – the reflections of the setting sun like spots of golden oil, the houses of two or perhaps three storeys, the procession of dark-haired females, the clearing in the forest, the colours indigo and silver-grey, the death of a young woman who had leaped into a well – build to an emotional crescendo that is all the more powerful for the intricacy of their patterning.
Border Districts
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Author : Gerald Murnane
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2018-04-03
Border Districts written by Gerald Murnane and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-03 with Fiction categories.
A bittersweet farewell to the world and the word by the Australian master “The mind is a place best viewed from borderlands . . .” Border Districts, purportedly the Australian master Gerald Murnane’s final work of fiction, is a hypnotic, precise, and self-lacerating “report” on a life led as an avid reader, fumbling lover, “student of mental imagery,” and devout believer—but a believer not in the commonplaces of religion, but rather in the luminescence of memory and its handmaiden, literature. In Border Districts, a man moves from a capital city to a remote town in the border country, where he intends to spend the last years of his life. It is time, he thinks, to review the spoils of a lifetime of seeing, a lifetime of reading. Which sights, which people, which books, fictional characters, turns of phrase, and lines of verse will survive into the twilight? A dark-haired woman with a wistful expression? An ancestral house in the grasslands? The colors in translucent panes of glass, in marbles and goldfish and racing silks? Feeling an increasing urgency to put his mental landscape in order, the man sets to work cataloging this treasure, little knowing where his “report” will lead and what secrets will be brought to light. Border Districts is a jewel of a farewell from one of the greatest living writers of English prose.
Last Letter To A Reader
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Author : Gerald Murnane
language : en
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
Release Date : 2021-11-01
Last Letter To A Reader written by Gerald Murnane and has been published by Giramondo Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-01 with Literary Collections categories.
Final work by internationally acclaimed Australian author Gerald Murnane, reflecting on his career as a writer, and the fifteen books which have led critics to praise him as ‘a genius on the level of Beckett’. A book which will appeal equally to Murnane’s legion of fans, and to those new to his work, attracted by his reputation as a truly original Australian writer. In the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane began a project which would round off his career as a writer – he would read all of his books in turn and prepare a report on each. His original intention was to lodge the reports in two of his legendary archives, the Chronological Archive, which documents his life as a whole, and the Literary Archive, which is devoted to everything he has written. But as the reports grew, they themselves took on the form of a book, Last Letter to a Reader. The essays on each of his works travel through the capacious territory Murnane refers to as his mind: they dwell on the circumstances which gave rise to the writing, images, associations, reflections on the theory of fiction, and memories of a deeply personal kind. The final essay is on Last Letter to a Reader itself: it considers the elation and exhilaration which accompany the act of writing, and offers a moving ending to what must surely be his last work as death approaches. ‘Help me, dear one, to endure patiently my going back to my own sort of heaven.’ ‘No living Australian writer, not even Les Murray, has higher claims to permanence or a richer sense of distinction’ — Sydney Morning Herald ‘The emotional conviction...is so intense, the somber lyricism so moving, the intelligence behind the chiseled sentences so undeniable, that we suspend all disbelief.’ — J.M. Coetzee
Tamarisk Row
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Author : Gerald Murnane
language : en
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
Release Date : 2008
Tamarisk Row written by Gerald Murnane and has been published by Giramondo Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Fiction categories.
First published in 1974, and out of print for almost twenty years, Tamarisk Row is Gerald Murnane's first novel, and in many respects his masterpiece, an unsparing evocation of a Catholic childhood in a Victorian country town in the late 1940s.
Inland
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Author : Gerald Murnane
language : en
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
Release Date : 2016-05-01
Inland written by Gerald Murnane and has been published by Giramondo Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-01 with Fiction categories.
With Giramondo’s publication of Barley Patch and A History of Books, Gerald Murnane has attracted renewed interest as a brilliant writer and Nobel Prize contender. First published 25 years ago, Inland is one of Murnane’s most complex and rewarding works, a study of guilt, longing and regret rich in metaphysical insights. From his native district in the Melbourne suburb of Pascoe Vale, Murnane’s narrator imagines another world, in Szolnok county Hungary, and within that world another, in Ideal South Dakota, each haunted by the betrayal of a young girl, each driven by the possibility of restitution. Murnane’s mastery over language and his pressing towards the edges of what fiction can accomplish make this book a landmark in Australian literature.
History Of Books
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Author : Gerald Murnane
language : en
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
Release Date : 2012
History Of Books written by Gerald Murnane and has been published by Giramondo Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Fiction categories.
This new work by Gerald Murnane is a fictionalised autobiography told in thirty sections, each of which begins with the memory of a book that has left an image on the writer?s mind. The titles aren?t given but the reader follows the clues, recalling in the process a parade of authors, the great, the popular, and the now-forgotten. The images themselves, with their scenes of marital discord, violence and madness, or their illuminated landscapes that point to the consolations of a world beyond fiction, give new intensity to Murnane?s habitual concern with the anxieties and aspirations of the wri.
Gerald Murnane
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Author : Professor Anthony Uhlmann FAHA
language : en
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Release Date : 2020-03-02
Gerald Murnane written by Professor Anthony Uhlmann FAHA and has been published by Sydney University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Gerald Murnane is one of Australia’s most important contemporary authors, but for years was neglected by critics. In 2018 the New York Times described him as “the greatest living English-language writer most people have never heard of” and tipped him as a future Nobel Prize winner. Gerald Murnane: Another World in This One coincides with a renewed interest in his work. It includes an important new essay by Murnane himself, alongside chapters by established and emerging literary critics from Australia and internationally. Together they provide a stimulating reassessment of Murnane’s diverse body of work.
Barley Patch
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Author : Gerald Murnane
language : en
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Release Date : 2011-09-20
Barley Patch written by Gerald Murnane and has been published by Dalkey Archive Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-20 with Fiction categories.
Discover the Australian novelist ranked by Ladbrokes as a top-five contender for the 2010 Nobel Prize. Barley Patch takes as its subject the reasons an author might abandon fiction—or so he thinks—forever. Using the form of an oblique self-interrogation, it begins with the Beckettian question “Must I write?” and proceeds to expand from this small, personal query to fill in the details of a landscape entirely unique in world letters, a chronicle of the images from life and fiction that have endured and mingled in the author’s mind, as well as the details (and details within details) that they contain. As interested, if not more so, in the characters from his books—finished or unfinished—as with the members of his family or his daily life, the narrator lays bare the act of writing and imagining, finally giving us a glimpse of the mythical place where the characters of fiction dwell before they come into existence in books. In the spirit of Italo Calvino and Georges Perec, Barley Patch is like no other fiction being written today.
Landscape With Landscape
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Author : Gerald Murnane
language : en
Publisher: Giramondo Publishing
Release Date : 2016-07-01
Landscape With Landscape written by Gerald Murnane and has been published by Giramondo Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-01 with Fiction categories.
Landscape with Landscape is Gerald Murnane’s fourth book, after The Plains, and his first collection of short fiction. When it was first published, thirty years ago, it was cruelly reviewed. ‘I feel sorry for my fourth-eldest, which of all my book-children was the most brutally treated in its early years,’ Murnane writes in his foreword to this new edition. In hindsight it can be seen to contain some of his best writing, and to offer a wide-ranging exploration of the different landscapes which make up the imagination of this extraordinary Australian writer. Five of the six loosely connected stories also trace a journey through the suburbs of Melbourne in the 1960s, as the writer negotiates the conflicting demands of Catholicism and sex, self-consciousness and intimacy, alcohol and literature. The sixth story, ‘The Battle of Acosta Nu’, is remarkable for its depth of emotion, as it imagines a Paraguayan man imagining a country called Australia, while his son sickens and dies before his eyes.