| ISBN |
9781925818840 |
| Classification |
824.3 MUR |
| Personal Name |
Murnane, Gerald, 1939- |
| Title |
Last letter to a reader : essays / Gerald Murnane. |
| Publication Details |
Artarmon, NSW : Giramondo Publishing, 2021. |
| Production & Copyright Details |
Artarmon, NSW : Giramondo Publishing, 2021. |
| ©2021. |
| Physical Description |
126 pages : music ; 21 cm. |
| Content type |
text |
| Contents Note |
Tamarisk Row -- A season on Earth -- The plains -- Landscape with landscape -- Inland -- Velvet Waters -- Emerald blue -- Invisible yet enduring lilacs -- Barley patch -- A history of books -- A million windows -- Something for the pain -- Border districts -- Green shadows and other poems -- Last letter to a reader. |
| Summary Note |
"In the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane began a project which would round off his career as a writer - he would read all of his books in turn and prepare a report on each. His original intention was to lodge the reports in two of his legendary archives, the Chronological Archive, which documents his life as a whole, and the Literary Archive, which is devoted to everything he has written. But as the reports grew, they themselves took on the form of a book, Last Letter to a Reader. The essays on each of his works travel through the capacious territory Murnane refers to as his mind: they dwell on the circumstances which gave rise to the writing, images, associations, reflections on the theory of fiction, and memories of a deeply personal kind. The final essay is on Last Letter to a Reader itself: it considers the elation and exhilaration which accompany the act of writing, and offers a moving ending to what must surely be his last work as death approaches. 'Help me, dear one, to endure patiently my going back to my own sort of heaven.'" -- Publisher. |
| Subject-Personal Name |
Murnane, Gerald, -- 1939-Criticism and interpretation |
| Murnane, Gerald, -- 1939-Criticism and interpretation |
| Subject - Topical Term |
Authors, Australian -- 20th century -- Biography |
| Authorship |
| Australian essays -- 21st century |
| Essays -- English -- Australia -- 20th century -- Texts |
| Australian essays -- 20th century |
