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Last letter to a reader : essays / Gerald Murnane.

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ISBN 9781925818840 (paperback)
Author Murnane, Gerald, 1939- author.
Title Last letter to a reader : essays / Gerald Murnane.
Publisher/Date Artarmon, NSW : Giramondo Publishing, 2021.
©2021
Pagination etc. 126 pages : music ; 21 cm.
Summary Note In the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane began a project which would round off his career as a writer - he would read all of his books in turn and prepare a report on each. His original intention was to lodge the reports in two of his legendary archives, the Chronological Archive, which documents his life as a whole, and the Literary Archive, which is devoted to everything he has written. But as the reports grew, they themselves took on the form of a book, Last Letter to a Reader. The essays on each of his works travel through the capacious territory Murnane refers to as his mind: they dwell on the circumstances which gave rise to the writing, images, associations, reflections on the theory of fiction, and memories of a deeply personal kind. The final essay is on Last Letter to a Reader itself: it considers the elation and exhilaration which accompany the act of writing, and offers a moving ending to what must surely be his last work as death approaches. 'Help me, dear one, to endure patiently my going back to my own sort of heaven.'
Subject Australian essays -- 21st century
Essays.
Shelf Location A824.3 MURN
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