Gerald Murnane - Böcker

Han har jämförts med Proust och Beckett, kallats miniatyrepikens mästare och betraktas allmänt som Australiens störste prosaförfattare idag. Nu ger vi ut Gerald Murnanes främsta verk, romanen Inlandet , i ny svensk utgåva. På en sällsam, egensinni...

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Till de bördiga slätterna i det inre av Australien anländer en filmare för att dokumentera sina uppdragsgivares, de lokala jordägarnas och tillika mecenaternas rika och till synes oöverblickbara historia och levnadsomständigheter. Under tjugo års ...

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Läs ett provkapitel här I den här samlingen av berättelser mot en självbiografisk fond turnerar författaren, liksom alltid, frågan om skrivandet och läsandet; framför allt handlar det om tiden och minnet. I en av novellerna, som fått sin titel, ...

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Clement Killeaton transforms his father's gambling, his mother's piety, his fellow pupils' cruelty and the mysterious but forbidden attractions of sex into an imagined world centred on horse-racing and played out in the dusty backya...

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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, people, books, ...

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Inland is a work which gathers in emotional power as it moves across the grasslands of its narrators imagination from Szolnok County on the great plains of Hungary where a man writes in the library of his manor house, to the Institute of Prairie S...

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Korntäppa är Gerald Murnanes återkomst till det skönlitterära skrivandet efter 14 år. Den börjar med frågan "Måste jag skriva?" och det som följer är en skildring och utforskning av de nätverk av bilder som dröjt i författarens inre. Bil...

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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 c...

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A young man arrives on the plains to document the strange, rich culture of the landowning families. This quest becomes his life. Teju Cole calls Murnane 'a genius on the level of Beckett.'

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In the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane perhaps the greatest living writer of English prose began a project that would round off his strange career as a novelist. He would read all of his books in turn and prepare a r...

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Han har kallats miniatyrepikens mästare, jämförts med Proust och Beckett, och betraktas som Australiens störste prosaförfattare idag. Nu ger vi ut Gerald Murnanes främsta verk, romanen Inlandet, i ny svensk utgåva. På en sällsam, egensinnig prosa ...

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'Someone has written that all art aspires to the condition of music. My experience is that all art, including all music, aspires to the condition of horse-racing.' This collection of essays leads the reader into the searching and wildly ...

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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 ...

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A bittersweet farewell to the world and the word by the Australian master"e;The mind is a place best viewed from borderlands . . ."e;Border Districts, purportedly the Australian master Gerald Murnane's final work of fiction, is a hypnotic,...

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Stories from a mind-bending Australian master, "e;a genius on the level of Beckett"e; (Teju Cole)Never before available to readers in this hemisphere, these stories-originally published from 1985 to 2012-offer an irresistible compendium of...

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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...

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Discover the Australian novelist ranked by Ladbrokes as a top-five contender for the 2010 Nobel Prize.

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Originally published between 1985 and 2012, these stories offer an enthralling introduction to the work of one of contemporary fiction's greatest magicians, and a map of Gerald Murnane's evolution as a writer. Spare, transparent and prof...

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Published in Australia in 2009, Barley Patch was Murnane's first book in fourteen years, written after a period in which he had thought he would never write fiction again. The book begins with the question, Must I write? What follows is both ...

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The cult Australian author with a resurgent following including Teju Cole and Ben Lerner achieves a bridge between the candor of "Tamarisk Row" and the experimentalism of "The Plains" with this bridge between the two, giving th...

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Fiction. Born in Melbourne, Austrailia, in 1939, Gerald Murnane recently retired as the senior lecturer in fiction writing at Deakin University with a reputation as one of the finest writers in his country. He is the author of seven highly praised...

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