Gerald Murnane Landscape with Landscape review, recensie en informatie boek uit 1985 met verhalen van de Australische schrijver. Op 13 januari 2026 verschijnt bij And Others Stories de heruitgave van de verhalenbundel van Gerald Murnane, de uit Australië afkomstige schrijver. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.
Gerald Murnane Landscape with Landscape review en recensie
- “The emotional conviction…is so intense, the somber lyricism so moving, the intelligence behind the chiselled sentences so undeniable, that we suspend all disbelief.” (J. M. Coetzee)
- “In this fiction, which lures the reader into thinking it is autobiographical because it seems so real, the narrator describes his journey towards writing the landscape. Not the landscape around him that intrudes into his inner world, but a landscape of his own making. This journey is both painfully droll and poignant.” (ANZ)
- “Strange and wonderful and nearly impossible to describe.” (New York Times)
Landscape with Landscape
- Auteur: Gerald Murnane (Australië)
- Soort boek: Australische verhalen uit 1985
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: And Other Stories
- Verschijnt: 13 januari 2026
- Omvang: 328 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs:
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol
Flaptekst van het boek met verhalen van Gerald Murnane
Landscape with Landscape is Gerald Murnane’s first collection of short fiction. These loosely connected stories trace a journey through the suburbs of Melbourne in the 1960s, as the writer negotiates the conflicting demands of Catholicism and sex, self-consciousness and intimacy, alcohol and literature. Harshly reviewed upon publication, it is now lauded as some of his best writing, offering a wide-ranging exploration of the landscapes which make up the imagination of this extraordinary Australian writer.
Gerald Murnane was born on 25 February 1939 in Coburg, Victoria, Australia. He is the award-winning author of fifteen books in his native Australia. In 2019 Tamarisk Row and Border Districts, his first novel and his latest work of prose fiction respectively, were published to acclaim in the UK by And Other Stories, and are followed by Collected Short Fiction and Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs in 2020. More titles will follow. Known for his passion for horse-racing and his refusal to travel outside Australia, Murnane lives in the remote village of Goroke in the northwest of Victoria, near the border with South Australia.