SOURCE: "Dualism and the Austrian Connection in Elizabeth Jolley's Fiction," in Southerly, Vol. 52, No. 2, June, 1992, pp. 44-55.

In the following essay, Wimmer finds a duality in Jolley's fiction stemming from her experience with exile and migration. Wimmer contends that Jolley attempts to resolve this duality by contrasting a symbols of European culture with the physical landscape of Australia.

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what is false. The thing is not necessarily either true or false, it can be both true and false.

Harold Pinter

Elizabeth Jolley's growing popularity has in recent years excited a lot of interest in her biography. Responding to the wishes of many magazine editors, she has provided us with an unusually large number of autobiographical pieces as well as a number of interviews covering similar material. While these autobiographical pieces...