Border districts, Murnane, Gerald

Автор: Murnane Gerald
Название: Stream System: The Collected Short Fiction of Gerald Murnane
ISBN: 0374126003 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374126001
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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Stories from a mind-bending Australian master, "a genius on the level of Beckett" (Teju Cole)

Never before available to readers in this hemisphere, these stories--originally published from 1985 to 2012--offer an irresistible compendium of the work of one of contemporary fiction's greatest magicians.

While the Australian master Gerald Murnane's reputation rests largely on his longer works of fiction, his short stories stand among the most brilliant and idiosyncratic uses of the form since Borges, Beckett, and Nabokov. Brutal, comic, obscene, and crystalline, Stream System runs from the haunting "Land Deal," which imagines the colonization of Australia and the ultimate vengeance of its indigenous people as a series of nested dreams; to "Finger Web," which tells a quietly terrifying, fractal tale of the scars of war and the roots of misogyny; to "The Interior of Gaaldine," which finds its anxious protagonist stranded beyond the limits of fiction itself.

No one else writes like Murnane, and there are few other authors alive still capable of changing how--and why--we read.

Автор: Murnane Gerald
Название: Border Districts: A Fiction
ISBN: 1250310326 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250310323
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Цена: 11650.00 T
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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.

Автор: Murnane Gerald
Название: A History of Books (Large Print 16pt)
ISBN: 1459649184 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781459649187
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Цена: 30640.00 T
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Автор: Murnane, Gerald
Название: Tamarisk row
ISBN: 1911508369 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911508366
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Описание: A lonely child of unusual sensibility inherits his father`s love of horse-racing and his mother`s Catholicism in this evocative, semi-autobiographical novel.

Автор: Murnane Gerald
Название: A Season on Earth
ISBN: 1925773345 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781925773347
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Описание: Lost to the world for more than four decades, A Season on Earth is the essential link between two acknowledged masterpieces by Gerald Murnane: his debut novel, Tamarisk Row, a lyrical account of boyhood, and the revolutionary prose of The Plains. A hilarious tale of a lustful teenager in 1950s Melbourne, A Lifetime on Clouds has been considered an outlier in Murnane's fiction. That is because, as Murnane writes in his foreword, it is 'only half a book and Adrian Sherd only half a character'. Here, at last, is young Adrian's journey in full, from fantasies about orgies with American film stars and idealised visions of suburban marital bliss to his struggles as a Catholic student-priest, and finally a burgeoning sense of the boundless imaginative possibilities to be found in literature and landscape.

Автор: Murnane Gerald
Название: Inland
ISBN: 1564787176 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781564787170
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Is it possible to fall in love with a correspondent based entirely on a fascination with his or her handwriting, with a map of the country they live in, with the syllables of their name? What about, then, a fictional character, in a book about a country one has never, and will never, visit?

Автор: Murnane Gerald
Название: Barley Patch
ISBN: 1564786765 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781564786760
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Описание: 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.