Gerald Murnane The Plains

Gerald Murnane The Plains. Gerald Murnane's “The Plains” Is a Strange Australian Masterpiece The New Yorker Perhaps best known for his 1982 novel The Plains, [2] he has won acclaim for his distinctive prose and exploration of memory, identity, and the Australian landscape, often blurring fiction and autobiography in the process The Plains is narrated by a nameless would-be film-maker

The Brat Pack meets The Bacchae in this precious, way-too-long, and utterly unsuspenseful town-and-gown murder tale His debut novel, Tamarisk Row (1974), was followed by nine other works of fiction, including The Plains now available as a Text Classic, and most recently A Million Windows.

Is the Next Nobel Laureate in Literature Tending Bar in a Dusty Australian Town? The New York

Sue Gillett, Gerald Murnane's "The Plains": a Convenient Source of Metaphors This is an extended version of the review that originally appeared on the Canongate site. The New York Times described Murnane in 2018 as "the greatest. He travels to 'the plains' with grand ambitions and a vague plan, to make a film to be called -- and to fully grasp and reveal -- The Interior

Text Publishing — The Plains Text Classics, book by Gerald Murnane. A bunch of ever-so-mandarin college kids in a small Vermont school are the eager epigones of an aloof classics professor, and in their exclusivity and snobbishness and eagerness to please their teacher, they are moved to try to enact Dionysian frenzies in the woods. He has consciously never travelled outside Australia, even though he has read widely and recently learned Hungarian in order to read that country's literature.

Gerald Murnane The Plains Book Review YouTube. The Australian writer Gerald Murnane was born in a suburb of Melbourne, in 1939, and has spent his entire life in Australia Gerald Murnane (born 25 February 1939) [1] is an Australian novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist