Gerald Murnane: The Art of Fiction No. 266 — A Writer's Life in the West Wimmera Plains
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Interviewed by Louis Klee
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A profile of Australian writer Gerald Murnane, focusing on his secluded life in the small town of Goroke in the West Wimmera plains. The piece explores the striking affinities between the landscape he inhabits and his distinctive fiction, while also featuring his reflections on writing, reading, and the fundamental questions that drive his literary work.
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· 3 pulledA fatal question—what are people reading these days? Never mind what people are reading these days. What should I be writing about is the fundamental question.
The bushland here has been cleared for wheat cultivation, and venerable gum trees stand alone in the grasslands, as if positioned to emphasize the landscape's flatness and expanse.
It's a place that has striking affinities with Murnane's fiction: his narrators always seem to b
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