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5 69 y separately published work icon Fredy Neptune Les Murray , Potts Point : Duffy and Snellgrove , 1998 Z66594 1998 single work novel (taught in 2 units) When German-Australian sailor Friedrich 'Fredy' Boettcher is shanghied aboard a German Navy battleship at the outbreak of World War I, the sight of frenzied mobs burning Armenian women to death in Turkey causes him, through moral shock, to lose his sense of touch. This mysterious disability, which he knows he must hide, is both protection and curse during much of his life, as he orbits the high horror and low humor of a catastrophic age. Told in blue-collar English that regains freshness by eschewing the mind-set of literary language, Fredy's picaresque life - as, perhaps, the only Nordic Superman ever - is deep-dyed in layers of irony and attains a mind-inverting resolution. (Libraries Australia)
4 How Fred and I Wrote Fredy Neptune Les Murray , 1999 single work autobiography
— Appears in: The Best Australian Essays 1999 1999; (p. 364-373)
— Appears in: Les Murray and Australian Poetry 2002; (p. 65-78)
— Appears in: Fredy Neptune 2004; (p. 505-512)
— Appears in: Lettere dalla Beozia : Scritti sull'Australia e la Poesia 2005; (p. [211]-225)
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