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y separately published work icon Landscape with Landscape selected work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1985... 1985 Landscape with Landscape
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'Murnane's innovative fictional techniques in Landscape with Landscape have inspired debates regarding whether the text is a novel or a collection of stories. The cover of the Penguin edition uses the terms "stories" and "fiction," but does not label the text either a novel or a collection of short stories [...] In the last section of the work, 'Landscape with Artist,' Murnane's narrator directly addresses the issue, stating, "I had considered again one of the problems that had kept me from showing my manuscripts to a publisher. I tried to decide whether they were a collection of short stories or whether I could combine them and unify them to make them a single novel ... [I] told myself that ... I would ... devise a new form of prose fiction - neither short story nor novel."' (Nathanael O'Reilly Exploring Suburbia p.217)

Contents

* Contents derived from the Carlton, Parkville - Carlton area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,:Norstrilia Press , 1985 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Landscape with Freckled Woman, Gerald Murnane , single work short story (p. 1-25)
Sipping the Essence, Gerald Murnane , single work short story (p. 27-70)
The Battle of Acosta Nu, Gerald Murnane , single work short story (p. 71-122)
A Quieter Place than Clun, Gerald Murnane , single work short story (p. 123-170)
Charlie Alcock's Cock, Gerald Murnane , single work short story (p. 171-215)
Landscape with Artist, Gerald Murnane , single work short story (p. 217-267)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Signs of Anguish in Gerald Murnane’s Landscape with Landscape Kong Yilei , Wang Labao , 2021 single work criticism
— Appears in: Contemporary Foreign Literature , no. 1 2021; (p. 82-88)
'Gerald Murnane’s landmark novel, Landscape with Landscape(1985), is a masterpiece of Australian postmodern experimental fiction. Divided into six parts, which could be read as six independent stories, the book adopts the structure of embedded Chinese Boxes, providing both unity and a feeling of inescapable entrapment. The characters in the book use a series of images, such as juice, freckles on a woman’s skin and the mandala, to communicate their secret impulses and desires for the real beyond life’s immediate impressions. Through these images, the book examines the wide gap between flesh and spirit, ideals and reality in Australian society and literary writing, and the depression and anguish of a new generation of Australian writers. With its allegorical presentation of the inescapable confinement and anguish experienced by emerging writers, this book stands as a classic work of Australian anguish on the eve of the country’s literary modernization.' (Publication abstract)
The Story of Norstrilia Press Bruce Gillespie , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: SF Commentary , April no. 98 2019; (p. 71-84)

— Review of The Altered I : An Encounter with Science Fiction 1976 anthology short story criticism poetry ; The View from the Edge : A Workshop of Science Fiction Stories 1977 anthology short story ; Moon in the Ground Keith Antill , 1979 single work novel ; The Dreaming Dragons : A Time Opera Damien Broderick , 1980 single work novel ; The Stellar Gauge : Essays on Science Fiction Writers 1980 anthology criticism ; Lavington Pugh Jay Bland , 1982 single work novel ; An Unusual Angle Greg Egan , 1983 single work novel ; The Plains Gerald Murnane , 1982 single work novel ; Landscape with Landscape Gerald Murnane , 1985 selected work short story ; Dreamworks : Strange New Stories 1983 anthology short story ; In the Heart or in the Head : An Essay in Time Travel George Turner , 1984 single work autobiography criticism
y separately published work icon Grounded Visionary : The Mystic Fictions of Gerald Murnane Brendan McNamee , Oxford : Peter Lang , 2019 22038132 2019 multi chapter work criticism

'Grounded Visionary: The Mystic Fictions of Gerald Murnane is a reading of Australian writer Gerald Murnane’s fiction in the light of what is known as the Perennial Philosophy, a philosophical tradition that positions itself as the mystical foundation of all the world’s religions and spiritual systems. The essential tenet of that philosophy is that at a fundamental level all of life is a unity―consciousness and world are the same thing―and that it is possible, if extremely difficult, for the discriminating individual mind to experience this wholeness. Murnane’s work can be seen not to take its lead from writings in this philosophical tradition but rather to resonate with many of them through Murnane’s unique artistic expression of his experience of the world. The crux of the argument is that beneath their yearnings for landscapes and love, Murnane’s narrators and chief characters are all in search of the essential unity that the Perennial Philosophy postulates.

'Taking its cue from Murnane’s self-description as a "technical writer," this book examines each of the author’s works in detail to reveal how structures and themes are seamlessly woven together to create artworks that shimmer with mystery while at the same time remaining thoroughly grounded in the actual.

'Grounded Visionary is the first full-length study of Gerald Murnane’s work to tackle head-on his underlying mystical sensibility and is also the first to deal comprehensively with the author’s complete fictional output from Tamarisk Row to Border Districts. This book will be of interest to all lovers of modern literature and will be of special interest to students of Australian literature and those concerned with the interface between art and spirituality.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Robert Wood Reviews Landscape with Landscape by Gerald Murnane R. D. Wood , 2017 single work review
— Appears in: Plumwood Mountain [Online] , February 2017;

— Review of Landscape with Landscape Gerald Murnane , 1985 selected work short story
Branching Out in the Terrain of Imagination Shannon Burns , 2016 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 3-4 September 2016; (p. 18)

— Review of Landscape with Landscape Gerald Murnane , 1985 selected work short story
Norstrilia Press Catalogue Bruce Gillespie , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Scratch Pad 15 , April 1996; (p. 1-2)

— Review of The View from the Edge : A Workshop of Science Fiction Stories 1977 anthology short story ; In the Heart or in the Head : An Essay in Time Travel George Turner , 1984 single work autobiography criticism ; An Unusual Angle Greg Egan , 1983 single work novel ; Dreamworks : Strange New Stories 1983 anthology short story ; The Plains Gerald Murnane , 1982 single work novel ; The Dreaming Dragons : A Time Opera Damien Broderick , 1980 single work novel ; Moon in the Ground Keith Antill , 1979 single work novel ; Landscape with Landscape Gerald Murnane , 1985 selected work short story
Penguins New and Revisited Reba Gostand , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , June vol. 7 no. 2 1988; (p. 57-58)

— Review of The Well Dressed Explorer Thea Astley , 1962 single work novel ; Landscape with Landscape Gerald Murnane , 1985 selected work short story ; That Eye, the Sky Tim Winton , 1986 single work novel ; Minimum of Two Tim Winton , 1987 selected work short story ; Testostero David Foster , 1987 single work novel ; The Invaluable Mystery Lesbia Harford , 1987 single work novel ; Holden's Performance Murray Bail , 1987 single work novel
Fear and Landscapes Ben Haneman , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 72 1985; (p. 27-28)

— Review of The House at Hardie's Corner H. H. Wilson , 1984 single work novel ; Landscape with Landscape Gerald Murnane , 1985 selected work short story
Flawed Fiction from a Local, Modish Messiah Gerard Windsor , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 25 June vol. 108 no. 5473 1985; (p. 93)

— Review of Landscape with Landscape Gerald Murnane , 1985 selected work short story
Gerald Murnane : Landscape with Author Penny Hueston , 1985 single work review
— Appears in: Scripsi , August vol. 3 no. 2-3 1985; (p. 64-73)

— Review of Landscape with Landscape Gerald Murnane , 1985 selected work short story
Gerald Murnane : Exploring the Real Country Paul Genoni , 2004 single work criticism
— Appears in: Subverting the Empire : Explorers and Exploration in Australian Fiction 2004; (p. 145-194)
Gerald Murnane's Travels into Regions Assumed to Be Known : The Geography of a Man Possessed By Impossibility Robert Kenny , 1987 single work criticism
— Appears in: Murnane 1987; (p. 29-32)
Gerald Murnane's Travels into Regions Assumed to Be Known : The Inland Sea Robert Kenny , 1987 single work criticism
— Appears in: Murnane 1987; (p. 32-36)
An Interview with Gerald Murnane Ludmilla Forsyth (interviewer), 1987 single work interview
— Appears in: Murnane 1987; (p. 42-68)
Creating Suburban Fantasies Nathanael O'Reilly , 2012 single work criticism
— Appears in: Exploring Suburbia: The Suburbs in the Contemporary Australian Novel 2012; (p. 191-247)
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