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Author's note: Six small notebooks, yellow with blue lettering 'SPIRAX No. 561', bought in Melbourne 1968 - the Indian and Afghanistan notebooks; one smaller with pink cover, bought in Bombay, now lost; eight shorthand notebooks, caramel covers, London 1970-74; one, used during the first American visit, 1972, lost. Entries here have been taken, with some corrections, mostly from seven 'London' books.
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Remapping Australia : Murray Bail's New Topographies of the Self in the 'Notebooks'
2018
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criticism
— Appears in: Commonwealth Essays and Studies , Spring vol. 40 no. 2 2018; (p. 9-22)'The Australian writer Murray Bail's 'Notebooks' feature a change of stance that interrogates the self-place relationship: initially dominated by an ideal of placelessness, they then seek to forge new bonds with a reimagined homeland. This essay examines the political implications of this paradigmatic shift. Arguably, the sense of identity that finds expression in this unconventional autobiography depends, in part, on a radical reconceptualisation of the Australian space.' (Publication abstract)
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Notebooks 1970-2003
2006
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review
— Appears in: Idiom 23 , November vol. 18 no. 2006; (p. 106-107)
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Untitled
2006
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— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , 5 - 18 May no. 291 2006; (p. 16)
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Trees for Life
2006
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 3 June 2006; (p. 11) -
In Brief : Non-Fiction
2006
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 281 2006; (p. 59)
— Review of Notebooks 1970-2003 2005 selected work diary prose
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Untitled
2005
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— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , September vol. 85 no. 3 2005; (p. 70)
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Bail Out on His Own in Sweeping Views
2005
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— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 19 November 2005; (p. 13)
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A Glimpse at the Inner Workings
2005
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— Appears in: The Age , 23-24 December 2005; (p. 22)
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Beauty in the Smallest Glimpses
2006
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 14-15 January 2006; (p. 19)
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Dribble in an Avalanche
2006
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— Appears in: The Times Literary Supplement , 3 March no. 5370 2006; (p. 24)
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Trees for Life
2006
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column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 3 June 2006; (p. 11) -
Remapping Australia : Murray Bail's New Topographies of the Self in the 'Notebooks'
2018
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Commonwealth Essays and Studies , Spring vol. 40 no. 2 2018; (p. 9-22)'The Australian writer Murray Bail's 'Notebooks' feature a change of stance that interrogates the self-place relationship: initially dominated by an ideal of placelessness, they then seek to forge new bonds with a reimagined homeland. This essay examines the political implications of this paradigmatic shift. Arguably, the sense of identity that finds expression in this unconventional autobiography depends, in part, on a radical reconceptualisation of the Australian space.' (Publication abstract)
