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The Australian James Joyce: the novels of Gerald Murnane reviewed

2 February 2019

9:00 AM

2 February 2019

9:00 AM

Gerald Murnane is the kind of writer literary critics adore. His novels have little in the way of plot or even character, and it is hard to tell the narrator from the writer, so that all his stories might be essays; his sentences are weirdly flat but interrupted occasionally by wild visions.

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