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Published in Australia in 2009, Barley Patch was Murnane's first book in fourteen years, written after a period in which he had thought he would never write fiction again. The book begins with the question, "Must I write?" What follows is both a chronicle of the images that have endured in the author's mind and an exploration of their nature. The clarity of the images is extraordinary, as is their range, from Mandrake the Magician to the bache...

Inland is a work which gathers in emotional power as it moves across the grasslands of its narrator's imagination--from Szolnok County on the great plains of Hungary where a man writes in the library of his manor house, to the Institute of Prairie Studies in Tripp County, South Dakota, where the editor of the journal Hinterland receives his writing, to the narrator's own native district in Melbourne County, between Moonee Ponds and the Merri, ...

Ein Mann sitzt in seinem australischen Zimmer und ersinnt einen Autor im ungarischen Szolnok, der seinerseits Briefe an seine junge Lektorin in der Prärie South Dakotas schreibt. Dabei ist er sehr darauf bedacht, den Altersunterschied zu bagatellisieren, und er schickt ihr statt eines Autorenfotos ein Bild des Familiengrabs. Irgendwann aber scheint ihre Prärie nicht mehr von der Ödnis vor seinem Fenster unterscheidbar und sie sich auf seinen B...

In the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane ‿ perhaps the greatest living writer of English prose ‿ began a project that would round off his strange career as a novelist. 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 filing cabinets: in the Chronological Archive, which documents his life as a whole, and the Literary Archive,...

Ein Mann soll vor einem komplett weiblich besetzen Komitee die Wahrheit über sein Intimleben aussagen, doch je mehr er sich anstrengt, desto unrettbarer verheddert er sich in seine Fantasien und Träume. Ein anderer Mann sucht im Hügelland rings um die Metropole über zwanzig Jahre lang wie besessen nach einer Landschaft und einer Frau, die kein Künstler zu malen vermöchte. Ein Dritter - oder ist es ein- und derselbe Mann? - sabotiert sich auf P...

Never before available to readers in the UK, these brilliant and idiosyncratic short stories stand alongside the fictions of Borges, Beckett and Nabokov.

A masterful collection of essays from one of Australia's most searching and expert writers.

Based on Murnane's own early years growing up in the Victorian country town of Bendigo, Tamarisk Row is an unsparing evocation of an impoverished Catholic childhood in the late 1940s. Originally published in 1974, and out of print for almost twenty years, Tamarisk Row is Murnane's first novel, and in many respects his masterpiece, not only because of its rich social tapestry and its evocation of the Australian landscape, but because it does ma...

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A bittersweet farewell to the world and the word by the Australian master"The mind is a place best viewed from borderlands . . ."Border Districts, purportedly the Australian master Gerald Murnane's final work of fiction, is a hypnotic, precise, and self-lacerating "report" on a life led as an avid reader, fumbling lover, "student of mental imagery, " and devout believer-but a believer not in the commonplaces of religion, but rather in the lumi...

Lost to the world for more than four decades, A Season on Earth is the essential link between two acknowledged masterpieces by Murnane: his debut novel, Tamarisk Row, a lyrical account of boyhood, and the revolutionary prose of The Plains.

Purportedly the Australian master's final work, reflecting on the bittersweet nature of the literary life. Teju Cole, Ben Lerner and Lidija Haas are fans.

An unsparing evocation of a Catholic childhood in 1940s rural Australia, originally published in 1974. Out of boredom, fear and fascination a young boy transfigures his surroundings into an imagined world with horse racing at its centre.

Ein alter Mann zieht aus der Hauptstadt in eine entlegene Ortschaft im Grenzland, dort will er die letzten Jahre verbringen. Welche geistigen Eindrücke bleiben, fragt er, aus einem Leben, das der Betrachtung gewidmet war und dem Lesen? Die sehnsüchtige Anmutung einer dunkelhaarigen Frau? Der Familiensitz in einer kargen Landschaft? Die gelenkige Schönheit eines gewissen Rennpferdes? Die Farbigkeit durchscheinender Glasfenster? Eine Zeile Prous...

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Stories from a mind-bending Australian master, "a genius on the level of Beckett" (Teju Cole)Never before available to readers in this hemisphere, these stories-originally published from 1985 to 2012-offer an irresistible compendium of the work of one of contemporary fiction's greatest magicians.While the Australian master Gerald Murnane's reputation rests largely on his longer works of fiction, his short stories stand among the most brilliant...

A bittersweet farewell to the world and the word by the Australian master"The mind is a place best viewed from borderlands . . ."Border Districts, purportedly the Australian master Gerald Murnane's final work of fiction, is a hypnotic, precise, and self-lacerating "report" on a life led as an avid reader, fumbling lover, "student of mental imagery, " and devout believer-but a believer not in the commonplaces of religion, but rather in the lumi...

This new work by Gerald Murnane is a fictionalised autobiography told in thirty sections, each of which begins with the memory of a book that has left an image on the writer's mind. The titles aren't given but the reader follows the clues, recalling in the process a parade of authors, the great, the popular, and the now - forgotten. The images t...