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Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 After Romulus
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'In 1998, Raimond Gaita's Romulus, My Father was first published—the story of his father who came to Australia from Europe with his young wife Christine and their four-year-old son after the end of the Second World War. In the isolated landscape of country Victoria, Christine succumbed to mental illness, and a series of tragedies befell the family. Described as 'a profound meditation on love and death, madness and truth, judgment and compassion', Romulus, My Father became an instant classic. Now, thirteen years later, and four years after the release of the film, Raimond Gaita has put together this collection in which he reflects on the writing of the book, the making of the film, his relationship to the desolate beauty of the central Victorian landscape, the philosophies that underpinned his father's relationship to the world and, most movingly, the presence and absence of his mother and his unassuaged longing for her.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Maria

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Text Publishing , 2011 .
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      Extent: 224p.
      ISBN: 9781921758782 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

Walking in Her Footsteps : Migration, Adaptation, and the Mother’s Journey in Romulus, My Father Fincina Hopgood , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Adaptation , March vol. 9 no. 1 2016; (p. 22-34)
'Philosopher Raimond Gaita’s acclaimed and much-loved memoir of his childhood in 1950s rural Victoria, Romulus, My Father (1998), was adapted for a feature film in 2007, starring Eric Bana and Franka Potente. Gaita worked closely with the film’s director, Australian actor Richard Roxburgh, and scriptwriter, English poet Nick Drake, throughout the scripting process, and wrote an extended introduction to the published screenplay. While speaking highly of the film’s production team and admiring the finished film in this introduction, Gaita’s subsequent writing in After Romulus, a collection of essays published in 2011, reveals his unease with the film’s portrayal of the character Christina, based on his mother who suffered from an undiagnosed mental illness and committed suicide at the age of 29. This article examines the dialogic relationship between the three texts of memoir, film, and essay and their attempts to empathetically imagine the life of Christine Gaita.'
Raimond Gaita, After Romulus J. M. Coetzee , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: A Sense for Humanity : The Ethical Thought of Raimond Gaita 2014;
Childhood Demons Kill Objectivity Johanna Leggatt , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 1 January 2012; (p. 7)

— Review of After Romulus Raimond Gaita , 2011 single work autobiography
Well Read Deborah Bogle , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 1 October 2011; (p. 27)

— Review of After Romulus Raimond Gaita , 2011 single work autobiography ; Her Father's Daughter Alice Pung , 2011 single work autobiography
A Sentimental Bloke Paul Morgan , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , October no. 335 2011; (p. 23-24)

— Review of After Romulus Raimond Gaita , 2011 single work autobiography
An Unassuageable Longing Maria Tumarkin , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 10 - 11 September 2011; (p. 18-19)

— Review of After Romulus Raimond Gaita , 2011 single work autobiography
Romulus Revisited Richard Begbie , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 10 September 2011; (p. 23)

— Review of After Romulus Raimond Gaita , 2011 single work autobiography
Review of the Week Thornton McCamish , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 18 September 2011; (p. 16)

— Review of After Romulus Raimond Gaita , 2011 single work autobiography
Review : Non-Fiction Mary Philip , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 - 18 September 2011; (p. 25)

— Review of After Romulus Raimond Gaita , 2011 single work autobiography
Mother's Ruin Juliette Hughes , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 17 September 2011; (p. 31)

— Review of After Romulus Raimond Gaita , 2011 single work autobiography
A Pair of Ragged Claws Stephen Romei , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 13 - 14 August 2011; (p. 19)
A column canvassing current literary news.
A Pair of Ragged Claws Stephen Romei , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 20 - 21 August 2011; (p. 19)
A column canvassing current literary news. Discusses book publishing, distibution and reviewing. Discusses After Romulus and National Bookshop Day.
Raimond Gaita, After Romulus J. M. Coetzee , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: A Sense for Humanity : The Ethical Thought of Raimond Gaita 2014;
Walking in Her Footsteps : Migration, Adaptation, and the Mother’s Journey in Romulus, My Father Fincina Hopgood , 2016 single work criticism
— Appears in: Adaptation , March vol. 9 no. 1 2016; (p. 22-34)
'Philosopher Raimond Gaita’s acclaimed and much-loved memoir of his childhood in 1950s rural Victoria, Romulus, My Father (1998), was adapted for a feature film in 2007, starring Eric Bana and Franka Potente. Gaita worked closely with the film’s director, Australian actor Richard Roxburgh, and scriptwriter, English poet Nick Drake, throughout the scripting process, and wrote an extended introduction to the published screenplay. While speaking highly of the film’s production team and admiring the finished film in this introduction, Gaita’s subsequent writing in After Romulus, a collection of essays published in 2011, reveals his unease with the film’s portrayal of the character Christina, based on his mother who suffered from an undiagnosed mental illness and committed suicide at the age of 29. This article examines the dialogic relationship between the three texts of memoir, film, and essay and their attempts to empathetically imagine the life of Christine Gaita.'
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