![]() ![]() I came to a number of conclusions about this book, as is evidenced by my notes, taken during the course of reading the book, and to which I am now referring some days later, but now have some hesitation as to using analogies to explain the content, if that is the right word, of the book, possibly because the novel itself ends in mystification rather than clarification. ![]() ![]() The first book I mentioned in the previous paragraph is the novel The Plains, thought of by some who make a profession out of making pronouncements in literary matters as his most notable book, his most successful book, if such a thing can be adjudicated on anything more than sales. The author to which I am referring in the previous sentences is the Australian author Gerald Murnane. On a weeknight recently I took a library book that had lain on the coffee table for some days to bed, with the aim of reading it and then writing down some thoughts on its content and style, in anticipation of, and preparation for, reading the same author’s recent collection of essays, a book that is the outcome of him re-reading his own books, in many cases in their manuscript form. Last Letter to a Reader, Gerald Murnane, Giramondo ![]()
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