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Readers
54/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Gerald Murnane
Publisher:
And Other Stories
Date:
May 3, 2022
In the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald Murnane began a project that would round off his strange career as a novelist. He would read all of his books in turn and prepare a report on each.
What The Reviewers Say
... these brief, mesmeric reports describe a kind of spiritual topography every bit as rich and enigmatic as [Murnane's] celebrated fictions.
... gives us the lifetime of Murnane’s writing.
The title of this, supposedly final book, suggests a theoretical distance. Perhaps, some critical discourse about Murnane’s body of work. And yes, there is that. But far more satisfying is when he wanders off chasing his own thoughts, tracing the path of his ‘constellation of ideas’ onto the page.
The essays in Last Letter are neither literary criticism nor memoir. They ruminate instead on unexpected connections between books, ideas and the specific life experiences that informed his writing.
