Título: Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs
Autor: Gerald Murnane
Sinopse: This collection of essays leads the reader into the curious and eccentric imagination of Gerald Murnane, one of the masters of contemporary Australian writing, author of the classic novel The Plains, and winner of the Patrick White Literary Award. Delicately argued, and finely written, they describe his dislocated youth in the suburbs of Melbourne and rural Victoria in the 1950s, his debt to writers as unlike as Adam Lindsay Gordon, Marcel Proust and Jack Kerouac, his obsession with racehorses and grasslands and the Hungarian language, and above all, his dedication to the worlds of significance that lie within, or just beyond, the familiar details of Australian life. Acknowledgements: These essays were published over a period of twenty years, from 1984 to 2003, in the Age Monthly Review, Meanjin, Verandah, Brave New Word, Scripsi, Meridian, Tension, Tirra Lirra and HEAT, and are collected here for the first time. Author’s Note: One of the least useful tasks that a person of my years might undertake is to ask how differently he or she should have done this or that in the past. Even so, the author of the second-last piece in this book, when he was hardly younger than I am now, chose to ask himself just that question. He answered it by declaring that he should never have tried to write novels or novellas or short stories but should have allowed each piece of his fiction to find its own way to its natural end. The author’s conjecturing is futile, of course, but it has inspired me to make an even bolder declaration. I should never have tried to write fiction or nonfiction or even anything in-between. I should have left it to discerning editors to publish all my pieces of writing as essays.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs”, de Gerald Murnane, publicado pela editora Giramondo, em 2005 e com 230 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Giramondo
Páginas: 230
Ano: 2005
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Linguagem: pt_BR
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ISBN13: 9781925336733
