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'Exhaustion. and then, after exhaustion, light, creeping in, and with it fear, thought, calculation, that drowning in consciousness. I reach for her, or she me, sometimes violently, hands pulling, digging into flesh, dragging us back. As if that were a precipice, and one of us had nearly fallen.'
'A couple go into a room and will not come out until something—everything—is finished. A man sees in a famous painting something the artist has tried to erase, and which he pursues, like a clue to his own being, from gallery to gallery, story to story. David Brooks's previous books have established him as one of Australia's finest, most challenging writers. The imagination and eroticism of those books are here at new levels. From the haunting encounters of a sea captain in the eighteenth century to a vast Map Room in the twentieth, or the strange encodings in an asylum in the south of France, these are his most polished, elegant, and at times most disturbing stories so far.' (Publication summary)
Contents
- Listening to the Labyrinth, single work short story (p. 1-12)
- Alexandria, single work short story (p. 13-17)
- The Map Room, single work short story (p. 19-28)
- The Geometrist, single work short story (p. 29-37)
- Gauguin's Dream, single work short story (p. 39-46)
- The Mooncalf, single work short story (p. 47-54)
- Straw, single work short story (p. 55-58)
- St Cloud, single work short story (p. 59-84)
- Cordoba, single work short story (p. 85-91)
- Elk, single work short story (p. 93-96)
- The Unintroduced, single work short story (p. 97-103)
- The Rat Catcher, single work short story (p. 105-119)
- Set, single work short story (p. 121-130)
- Jacques Prevert and the Cat, single work short story (p. 131-136)
- Black Sea, single work short story (p. 137-151)
- The Passenger, single work short story (p. 153-158)
- Ars Amatoria, single work short story (p. 159-162)
- The Chateau Noir, single work short story (p. 163-168)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Untitled
1998
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Heat , no. 7 1998; (p. 178-183) -
Paperbacks
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 13 December 1997; (p. 8)
— Review of Black Sea 1997 selected work short story -
Unrepentant Spectre
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 196 1997; (p. 42-43)
— Review of Black Sea 1997 selected work short story -
Life's Stories Cut Short
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 11 November vol. 116 no. 6097 1997; (p. 92-93)
— Review of Black Sea 1997 selected work short story -
Elegant, Mesmeric and Intimate Tales
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 8 November 1997; (p. wkd 8)
— Review of Black Sea 1997 selected work short story
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A Knife Edge Separating Past and Future
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 11 October 1997; (p. C11)
— Review of Black Sea 1997 selected work short story -
Elegant, Mesmeric and Intimate Tales
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 8 November 1997; (p. wkd 8)
— Review of Black Sea 1997 selected work short story -
Life's Stories Cut Short
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 11 November vol. 116 no. 6097 1997; (p. 92-93)
— Review of Black Sea 1997 selected work short story -
Unrepentant Spectre
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 196 1997; (p. 42-43)
— Review of Black Sea 1997 selected work short story -
Paperbacks
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 13 December 1997; (p. 8)
— Review of Black Sea 1997 selected work short story -
Untitled
1998
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Heat , no. 7 1998; (p. 178-183)