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'Don't be deceived by this Tardis of a book, its three small monologues contain multitudes. Through the gently detailed lives of its subjects whole civilisations emerge: the fifteenth-century India of the dying and illiterate poet, Kabir; the Stalinist Russia of Chekhov's younger sister, Maria; and the early seventeenth-century, Inquisition-ravaged Italy of the Calabrian theologian and poet, Tommaso Campanella. The characters, at the end of their lives, are haunted by their pasts, and in prose of simple, meditative, elegiac beauty, Jaireth suggests that this nostalgia is neither a longing for a lost place or a lost time, but is, rather, a homelessness in time - his own included - an uneasiness that has driven all that they have and have not done. The book is ultimately about the mystery of creation itself, the silence from which all things come and to which they inevitably return.' (Trove record)
Notes
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Fictional autobiographies.
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Dedication: for HJ, KJ and MJ
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Mridula Nath Chakraborty Reviews To Silence by Subhash Jaireth
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , June no. 11 2012;
— Review of To Silence : Three Autobiographies 2011 selected work single work short story -
Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 336 2011; (p. 68)
— Review of To Silence : Three Autobiographies 2011 selected work single work short story -
Take Three : Fiction
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 14 August 2011; (p. 26)
— Review of Thought Crimes 2011 selected work short story ; To Silence : Three Autobiographies 2011 selected work single work short story
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Take Three : Fiction
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Sunday Canberra Times , 14 August 2011; (p. 26)
— Review of Thought Crimes 2011 selected work short story ; To Silence : Three Autobiographies 2011 selected work single work short story -
Untitled
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , November no. 336 2011; (p. 68)
— Review of To Silence : Three Autobiographies 2011 selected work single work short story -
Mridula Nath Chakraborty Reviews To Silence by Subhash Jaireth
2012
single work
review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , June no. 11 2012;
— Review of To Silence : Three Autobiographies 2011 selected work single work short story
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