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How Fred and I Wrote Fredy Neptune single work   autobiography  
  • Author:agent Les Murray http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/murray-les
Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 How Fred and I Wrote Fredy Neptune
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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Best Australian Essays 1999 Peter Craven (editor), Melbourne : Bookman Press , 1999 Z148007 1999 anthology short story prose criticism review biography autobiography humour Melbourne : Bookman Press , 1999 pg. 364-373
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Les Murray and Australian Poetry Angela Smith (editor), London : Menzies Centre for Australian Studies , 2002 Z971493 2002 anthology criticism London : Menzies Centre for Australian Studies , 2002 pg. 65-78
    Note: Editor's note: A version of the essay ... appears in ... The Best Australian Essays, 1999.
Alternative title: Wie Fred und ich Fredy Neptune schrieben
Language: German
  • Appears in:
    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) Zurich : Ammann , 2004 pg. 505-512
Alternative title: Come Fred ed io abbiamo scritto Fredy Nettuno
Language: Italian
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