5/27/2023 0 Comments Inland by Gerald Murnane![]() ![]() All of these books are concerned with the relation between memory, image, and landscape, and frequently with the relation between fiction and non-fiction. A book of essays, Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs, appeared in 2005, and a new work of fiction, Barley Patch, was released in 2009. The novel was followed by: Landscape With Landscape (1985), Inland (1988), Velvet Waters (1990), and Emerald Blue (1995). ![]() The novel depicts an abstracted Australia, akin to something out of mythology or fable. The novel is both a metaphysical parable about appearance and reality, and a parodic examination of traditions and cultural horizons. In 1982, he attained his mature style with The Plains, a short novel about a young filmmaker who travels to a fictive country far within Australia, where his failure to make a film is perhaps his most profound achievement. Both are composed largely of very long but grammatical sentences. ![]() Murnane's first two books, Tamarisk Row (1974) and A Lifetime on Clouds (1976), seem to be semi-autobiographical accounts of his childhood and adolescence. ![]()
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