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 David George Joseph Malouf (born 20 March 1934) is an acclaimed Australian writer . His 1993 novel, Remembering Babylon was shortlisted for the Booker Prize...


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On translating David Malouf.
03/22/2003: 2,611 words, approx. 9 pages AS A person who had no idea how things worked "down under", I was, one day, very much surprised to discover that no matter how at odds with the English they might be on some questions, the Australians didn't seem to have an,...
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 Australian Literary Studies
Imagining transcendence: the poetry of David Malouf.
10/01/2005: 6,705 words, approx. 22 pages Ivor Indyk suggests that An Imaginary Life needs to be regarded as one of the most theoretical works of Australian fiction, at the same time that it is considered one of its most poetic (26) Indyk's observation recognises a significant impulse in Malouf's...




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Critical Essay by Cecil Hadgraft
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 [If] you are committed to literature and have written poems, which are shorter and do not require the persistent physical effort—among other efforts—that a novel does, then it may seem that a novel is next in the natural order of things. But a saving sophistication makes you wary of the thinly veiled autobiography. A decent camouflage of interests and themes is advisable. Instead of yourself, an acquaintance may serve as a focus. And if he is in the novel, then you yourself are naturally, even...
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Critical Essay by Katha Pollitt
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 "How close to where I live lie the ultimate ends of the earth," Ovid wrote from Tomis, the semisavage Black Sea village to which he had been exiled by Augustus in A.D. 8. History is silent about the reason for the sudden banishment from Rome of its wittiest, gayest poet, last of the generation that included Virgil, Horace and Propertius. Ovid himself thought he was being punished for his writing. "My only fault is that I possess both talent and taste," he claimed in the "T...
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Critical Essay by David Guy
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 The coupling of two so different novellas as ["Child's Play" and "The Bread of Time to Come"] seems peculiar at first: one concerns a young Australian's experiences just before and during the First World War; the other is an intensely inward first-person narration by a contemporary Italian terrorist. David Malouf, however, is a richly imagistic writer, philosophical and literary in the best sense; his terrorist is hardly the subject of a slick thriller. Though proba...
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Analysis of "Johnno"
1,686 words, approx. 6 pages
 An analysis of David Malouf's semi-biographical rite of passage novel, "Johno."


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