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'Alex Miller may be Australia's greatest living writer. I certainly believe this to be the case. I base my view on the depth and range of his narrative preoccupations. He writes about love but his lovers often come from very different cultural backgrounds, and this illuminates what is foundational in love while respecting diversity in the most intimate of human connections. He writes with scrupulousness about the human complications of invasion, massacre and armed conflict. The American novelist Philip Roth writes that art is concerned with nuance, and politics cannot afford nuance (I Married a Communist, 223). Nuance is the most welcome and apparent characteristic of Miller understanding of the politics of territorial dispossession. He writes, also, about art and literature as cultural forces and as imperatives within the lives of individuals. In all his fiction, he is both a great writer and a great thinker. This chapter offers a much more brief appreciation of his work and thought then I would wish, more brief than it deserves. In it, I plan to consider Alex Miller and Tolstoy: both great writers, both great thinkers, especially on matters of love and war.' (Author's introduction 42)
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Alex Miller and Leo Tolstoy : Australian Storytelling in a European Tradition
Subjects:
- Lovesong 2009 single work novel
- Conditions of Faith 2000 single work novel
- Journey to the Stone Country 2002 single work novel
- Prochownik's Dream 2005 single work novel
- Landscape of Farewell 2007 single work novel
- The Tivington Nott 1989 single work novel
- The Ancestor Game 1992 single work novel
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