Gerald Murnane
Australian novelist and short-story writer known for introspective, formally inventive fiction that explores memory, landscape and perception; best known for the novel The Plains (1982).
Books
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1. The Plains
An unnamed narrator — a solitary, bookish man living in the city — becomes steadily absorbed in an imagined world of Australian plains and in the memory of a young woman, assembling a private geography from fragments of childhood recollection, photographs, cinema and reading; the novel is a spare, hypnotic meditation on perception, memory and the limits of representation, where landscapes, imagined inhabitants and repeated images fold back on one another to explore how language and vision construct longing and meaning.
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