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4. Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 42.
5. ‘Imagination Dead Imagine’, Samuel Beckett: The Grove Centenary Edition (New York: Grove Press, 2006), vol. 4, p. 361.
6. ‘Ping’, Samuel Beckett: The Grove Centenary Edition, vol. 4, p. 371.
19. Late Patrick White
1. Patrick White, Flaws in the Glass (London: Cape, 1981), pp. 80, 154.
2. Duffield was ‘a composite of several [painters] I have known, welded together by the one I have in me but never became’. White, Flaws in the Glass, p. 151.
3. Patrick White, The Vivisector (London: Penguin, 1970), p. 248. I have regularized White’s spelling.
4. Patrick White, Letters, ed. David Marr (Sydney: Random House, 1994), p. 327.
5. Helen Verity Hewitt, Patrick White, Painter Manqué (Melbourne: Miegunyah Press, 2002), p. 82.
6. White, Letters, ed. Marr, p. 321.
7. David Marr, ‘Patrick White: The Final Chapter’, The Monthly, April 2008, p. 30.
8. Max Brod, Epilogue to The Trial, trans. Willa and Edwin Muir, in Franz Kafka, Collected Novels (London: Penguin, 1988), p. 173.
9. John H. Wigmore, Evidence in trials at common law, § 2462, at 198 (James H. Chadbourn, ed., 1981).
10. Quoted in Richard F. Storrow, ‘Judicial discretion and the disappearing distinction between will interpretation and construction’, Case Western Reserve Law Review 56 (2005), p. 71.
11. John 3:8 (New American Standard Bible).
12. John 20:22.
13. White, Flaws in the Glass, pp. 175, 201.
14. Patrick White, The Hanging Garden (New York: Picador, 2012), pp. 152, 208, 195, 196, 197.
20. Patrick White, The Solid Mandala
1. Patrick White, The Solid Mandala (London: Penguin, 1969), p. 281.
21. The Poetry of Les Murray
1. Les Murray, The Paperbark Tree: Selected Prose (Manchester: Carcanet, 1992), p. 33.
2. Quoted in Paul Kane, Australian Poetry: Romanticism and Negativity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), p. 199.
3. Quoted in Peter Alexander, Les Murray: A Life in Progress (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 56.
4. Murray, The Paperbark Tree, pp. 48, 47, 46.
5. Murray, The Paperbark Tree, p. 73.
6. ‘Humiliation mills’ quoted in Peter Pierce, ‘Les Murray’s “Narrow-speak”’, in Laurie Hergenhan and Bruce Clunies Ross, The Poetry of Les Murray: Critical Essays (Brisbane: University of Queensland Press, 2001), p. 83. ‘The Ascendancy’, etc.: Murray, The Paperbark Tree, p. 48.
7. Les Murray, Collected Poems (Melbourne: Black Inc., 2006), p. 341.
8. Quoted in Alexander, Les Murray, p. 73.
9. Murray, Collected Poems, p. 424.
10. Murray, The Paperbark Tree, p. 90.
11. Murray, The Paperbark Tree, p. 72.
12. Murray, The Paperbark Tree, pp. 72–3.
13. Interview with John Kinsella, Meanjin 2001/2, p. 158.
14. Murray, The Paperbark Tree, pp. 96–7.
15. Murray, The Paperbark Tree, p. 259.
16. Murray, The Paperbark Tree, p. 260.
17. Murray, The Paperbark Tree, p. 260.
18. Murray, Collected Poems, p. 183.
19. Alexander, Les Murray, p. 107.
20. Kane, Australian Poetry, chapter 11.
21. Murray, Collected Poems, pp. 179–80.
22. Murray, ‘Poetry and Religion’, Collected Poems, p. 265.
23. Les Murray, Killing the Black Dog: A Memoir of Depression (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009), p. 32.
22. Reading Gerald Murnane
1. See R. F. Foster, Modern Ireland 1600–1972 (London: Allen Lane, 1988), pp. 323, 324; David Fitzpatrick, Oceans of Consolation (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1995), p. 6.
2. Gerald Murnane, Barley Patch (Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, 2011), pp. 27, 127.
3. Murnane, Barley Patch, pp. 129–30.
4. ‘Il y a un autre monde mais il est dans celui-ci.’ I am unable to confirm that Eluard is in fact the source. See Gerald Murnane, Inland (Champaign: Dalkey Archive Press, 2012), p. 103. The same line was used by Patrick White as an epigraph to The Solid Mandala (1974), his novel about a suburban visionary.
5. Gerald Murnane, Emerald Blue (Melbourne: McPhee Gribble, 1995), p. 87.
6. Murnane, Emerald Blue, p. 85.
7. Gerald Murnane, Invisible Yet Enduring Lilacs (Sydney: Giramondo, 2005), p. 181.
8. Gerald Murnane, A History of Books, (Sydney: Giramondo, 2012), p. 31.
9. Murnane, Barley Patch, p. 126.
10. Murnane, Barley Patch, pp. 153, 157–9.
11. Murnane, Barley Patch, pp. 14, 85.
12. Murnane, Barley Patch, p. 204.
13. Murnane, Barley Patch, p. 170.
14. Murnane, Barley Patch, pp. 167–8.
15. Murnane, Inland, p. 98.
16. Murnane, Inland, p. 110.
17. Gyula Illyés, Hungarian Review, July 2011, p. 92.
18. Murnane, Inland, pp. 166–7.
23. The Diary of Hendrik Witbooi
1. Die Dagboek van Hendrik Witbooi. Foreword by Gustav Voigts (Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, 1929).
2. Quoted in Horst Drechsler, Südwestafrika unter deutscher Kolonialherrschaft (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1966), p. 180.
3. The Hendrik Witbooi Papers, ed. Brigitte Lau (Windhoek: National Archives, 1989), pp. 135–6. This edition includes a translation of the Dagboek by Annemarie Heywood and Eben Maasdorp.
4. http://www.windhuk.diplo.de/Vertretung/windhuk/de/03/Gedenkjahre__2004__2005/rede-bmz-2004-08-14.html.
Acknowledgments
(1) An earlier version appeared as an introduction to Daniel Defoe, Roxana, trans. Teresa Arijón (Madrid & Buenos Aires: El Hilo de Ariadna, 2014).
(2) An earlier version appeared as an introduction to Nathaniel Hawthorne, La Letra Escarlata, trans. José Donoso and Pilar Serrano (Madrid and Buenos Aires: El Hilo de Ariadna, 2013).
(3) An earlier version appeared as an introduction to Ford Madox Ford, El buen soldato, trans. Sergio Pitol (Madrid and Buenos Aires: El Hilo de Ariadna, 2015).
(4) An earlier version appeared as a review of Philip Roth, Nemesis, in New York Review of Books 57/16 (28 October 2010).
(5) An earlier version appeared in New York Review of Books 59/7 (26 April 2012) as a review of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sufferings of Young Werther, trans. Stanley Corngold.
(6) An earlier version appeared as a review of Friedrich Hölderlin, Poems and Fragments, trans. Michael Hamburger, in New York Review of Books 53/16 (19 October 2006).
(7) An earlier version appeared as an introduction to Heinrich von Kleist, La Marquesa de O. y Michael Kohlhaas, trans. Ariel Magnus (Madrid and Buenos Aires: El Hilo de Ariadna, 2013).
(8) An earlier version appeared as an introduction to Robert Walser, El ayudante, trans. Juan José del Solar (Madrid and Buenos Aires: El Hilo de Ariadna, 2014).
(9) An earlier version appeared as an introduction to Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, trans. Graciela Isnardi (Madrid and Buenos Aires: El Hilo de Ariadna, 2013).
(10) An earlier version appeared as a review of Irène Némirovsky, four novels, in New York Review of Books 55/18 (20 November 2008).
(11) An earlier version appeared as an introduction to Juan Ramon Jiménez, Platero y yo (Mexico: Lectorum, 2007).
(12) An earlier version appeared as a review of Antonio Di Benedetto, Zama, trans. Esther Allen (New York: New York Review Books, 2016), in New York Review of Books 64/1 (19 January 2017).
(13) An earlier version appeared as an introduction to Leo Tolstoy, La muerte de Iván Ilich, Patrón y peón, Hadji Murat, trans. Alejandro Ariel González (Madrid and Buenos Aires: El Hilo de Ariadna, 2014).
(14) An earlier version appeared in New Walk (Leicester) #2 (Summer 2011).
(15) An earlier version appeared as a review of Samuel Beckett, Letters, 1929–1940, in New York Review of Books 56/7 (30 April 2009).
(16) An earlier version appeared as an introduction to Samuel Beckett, Watt, trans. Cristina Piña (Madrid and Buenos Aires: El Hilo de Ariadna, 2015).
(17) An earlier version appeared as an introduction to Samuel Beckett, Molloy, trans. Roberto Bixio (Madrid and Buenos Aires: El Hilo de Ariadna, 2015).
(18) An earlier version appeared in Borderless Beckett/Beckett sans frontières, ed. Minako Okamuro et al. (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2008).
(19) Drawn from an introduction to Patrick White, The Vivisector (New York: Penguin, 2008); and from a review of Patrick White, The Hanging Garden, in New York Review of Books 60/17 (7 November 2013).
(20) An earlier version appeared as an introduction to Patrick White, Las esferas del mandala, trans. Elena Marengo (Madrid and Buenos Aires: El Hilo de Ariadna, 2015).
(21) An earlier version appeared as a review of Les Murray, Taller When Prone, in New York Review of Books 58/14 (29 September 2011).
(22) An earlier version appeared as a review of Gerald Murnane, Inland and Barley Patch, in New York Review of Books 59/20 (20 December 2012).
(23) An earlier version appeared as an introduction to Votre paix sera la mort de ma nation: Lettres d’Hendrik Witbooi (Saint-Gervais: Passager clandestin, 2011).
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