On David Malouf
On David Malouf

Author: Nam Le

Publisher: Black Inc.

Published: 2019-05-07

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13: 1743820925

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Here was a very-much-alive half-Lebanese writer (from provincial Brisbane, no less) producing English-language writing of the very first order ... The poetry was in the prose; it stayed and sprung its rhythms, chorded its ideas, concentrated its images. Every other novel claims to be written in “poetic prose”; the real thing, when you come across it, is actually shocking. Nam Le takes the reader on a thrilling intellectual ride in this sharp, bold essay. Encompassing identity politics, metaphysics, the relationship between life and art, and the ‘Australianness’ of Malouf’s work, it is unlike anything else written about one of Australia’s most acclaimed writers. In the Writers on Writers series, leading writers reflect on another Australian writer who has inspired and fascinated them. Provocative and crisp, these books start a fresh conversation between past and present, shed new light on the craft of writing, and introduce some intriguing and talented authors and their work. Published by Black Inc. in association with the University of Melbourne and State Library Victoria.

Ransom
Ransom

Author: David Malouf

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2010-01-05

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0307378934

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In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf reimagines the pivotal narrative of Homer’s Iliad—one of the most famous passages in all of literature. This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclus in the siege of Troy; and woeful Priam, whose son Hector killed Patroclus and was in turn savaged by Achilles. A moving tale of suffering, sorrow, and redemption, Ransom is incandescent in its delicate and powerful lyricism and its unstated imperative that we imagine our lives in the glow of fellow feeling.

Johnno
Johnno

Author: David Malouf

Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press

Published: 2015-11-23

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 0702258032

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"Despite Johnno's assertion that Brisbane was absolutely the ugliest place in the world, I had the feeling as I walked across deserted intersections, past empty parks with their tropical trees all spiked and sharp-edged in the early sunlight, that it might even be beautiful ... " Johnno is a typical Australian who refuses to be typical. His disorderly presence can disturb the staleness of his home town or destroy the tranquillity of a Greek landscape. An affectionately outrageous portrait, David Malouf's first novel recreates the war-conscious forties, the pubs and brothels of the fifties, and the years away treading water overseas.

The Happy Life
The Happy Life

Author: David Malouf

Publisher: Pantheon

Published: 2013-01-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0307907716

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By Australia’s greatest contemporary author, an elegant, succinct meditation on what makes for a happy life. ;-) “Happiness surely is among the simplest of human emotions and the most spontaneous,” says David Malouf. But what exactly are we looking for when we chase happiness? At this particular moment in history, privileged, industrialized nations have lessened much of what makes us unhappy: widespread poverty, illness, famine. Yet we are still unfulfilled, turning increasingly to yoga, church, Match.com, drugs, clinical therapy and retail therapy. What is at the root of our collective stress, and how can we find our way to contentment? Drawing on mythology, philosophy, art and literature, Malouf traces our conception of happiness throughout history, distilling centuries of thought into a lucid narrative. He discusses the creation myths of ancient Greece and the philosophical schools of Athens, analyzes Thomas Jefferson’s revolutionary declaration that “the pursuit of happiness” is a right, explores the celebration of sensual delight in Rembrandt and Rubens and offers a perceptive take on a modern society growing larger and more impersonal. With wisdom and insight, Malouf investigates that simplest, most spontaneous of feelings and urges us to do the same.

An Imaginary Life
An Imaginary Life

Author: David Malouf

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-11-30

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1409027392

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In the first century AD, Publius Ovidius Naso, the most urbane and irreverant poet of imperial Rome, was banished to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea. From these sparse facts, one of our most distinguished novelists has fashioned an audacious and supremely moving work of fiction. Marooned on the edge of the known world, exiled from his native tongue, Ovid depends on the kindness of barbarians who impate their dead and converse with the spirit world. But then he becomes the guardian of a still more savage creature, a feral child who has grown up among deer. What ensues is a luminous encounter between civilization and nature, as enacted by a poet who once catalogued the treacheries of love and a boy who slowly learns how to give it.

Fly Away Peter
Fly Away Peter

Author: David Malouf

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2012-10-31

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1409029867

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For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers. In another hemisphere civilization rushes headlong into a brutal conflict. Life there is lived from moment to moment. Inevitably, the two young men - sanctuary owner and employee - are drawn to the war, and into the mud and horror of the trenches of Armentieres. Alone on the beach, their friend Imogen, the middle-aged wildlife photographer, must acknowledge for all three of them that the past cannot be held.

On Experience
On Experience

Author: David Malouf

Publisher:

Published: 2012-10-01

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13: 9781459649897

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In this beautifully written, eloquent piece, David Malouf explores the connections between writing and the imagination and offers wonderful insights into his own experiences of the writer's life....

A First Place
A First Place

Author: David Malouf

Publisher: Random House Australia

Published: 2014-03-03

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 0857984063

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Topography, geography, history. Multiculturalism, referendums, the constitution and national occasions. Parental and grandparental romances, the sensual and bountiful beauty of Brisbane, the mysterious offerings of Queenslander houses, and leaving home. The idea of a nation and the heart of its people. Being Australian and Australia's relationship to the world. Putting ourselves on the map. All these subjects, and more, are explored from the generous, questioning and original perspective of David Malouf. At the heart of these pieces is the idea of home, where and what it is. What they illustrate is the formation of a man, an Australian and one of the best writers this country has produced. ---------- ‘A sublime meditation on this country .’ DAVID MARR, THE MONTHLY ‘Malouf is our best living interpreter of place and tradition’ ANDREW FUHRMANN, THE SUN-HERALD ‘Remarkable for its breadth of mind, elegance and wisdom.’ PETER CRAVEN, THE AGE ‘Australia’s finest writer’ MIRIAM COSIC, THE AUSTRALIAN ‘Malouf is a lyrical story-writer.’ MALCOLM KNOWX, THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD ‘A first-rate writer-a sensitive historian of the spirit.’ WALL STREET JOURNAL ‘A richly imagistic writer, philosophical and literary in the best sense.’ WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

Every Move You Make
Every Move You Make

Author: David Malouf

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 0099502585

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Contains stories about bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse, a builder-architect and his legacy. This collection is set in the vast Australian continent from the mysterious, glittering Valley of Lagoons to bohemian Balmain and the Centre at Uluru.