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'Antipodes - stories which pinpoint the contrast between the old world and the new, between youth and age, love and hatred and even life and death itself...'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Notes
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Dedication: To Judith Rodriguez and Thomas W. Shapcott.
Contents
- Southern Skies, single work short story (p. 7-25)
- A Trip to the Grundelsee, single work short story (p. 26-35)
- The Empty Lunch-Tin, single work short story (p. 36-42)
- Sorrows and Secrets, single work short story (p. 43-54)
- That Antic Jezebel, single work short story (p. 55-67)
- The Only Speaker of his Tongue, single work short story (p. 68-72)
- Out of the Stream, single work short story (p. 73-85)
- The Sun in Winter, single work short story (p. 86-91)
- Bad Blood, single work short story (p. 92-100)
- A Change of Scene, single work short story (p. 101-122)
- In Trust, single work short story (p. 123-129)
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A Traveller's Tale,
single work
short story
'There is a point in the northern part of the state, or rather, a line that runs waveringly across it, where the vegetation changes within minutes. A cataclysmic second a million or more years back has pushed two disparate land masses violently together, the one open savannah country with rocky outcrops and forests of blue-grey feathery gums, the other sub-tropical scrub. You arrive at the crest of a ridge and a whole new landscape swings into view. Hoop pines and bunya command the skyline. There are palm-trees, banana plantations. Leisurely broad rivers that seem always in flood go rolling seaward between stands of plumed and scented cane. It is as if you had dozed off at the wheel a moment and woken a whole day further on.' (Introduction)
- A Medium, single work short story (p. 156-160)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Provocatively Calm : On David Malouf as Essayist
2017
single work
criticism
— Appears in: TEXT Special Issue Website Series , no. 39 2017; ''This article examines the essays of David Malouf, many of which have been recently collected in three thematic volumes: A First Place (2014a), The Writing Life (2014b) and Being There (2015). My starting point is to argue that Malouf’s most important essays are politically charged. As a writer-activist he posits distinctive, sometimes controversial, positions, arguing strongly and passionately for alternative ways of thinking about Australia and the world, and indeed alternative ways for human beings to move through, and participate in, the world. However, Malouf is no firebrand: the tone of his essays is relentlessly calm; he brings together the emphatic and the empathetic, and he still tries to convince the reader. This article focuses on the political implications of Malouf’s calm but opinionated approach to his essays, as well as on how Malouf sets out to persuade readers. (Introduction) -
David Malouf and the Poetics of Possibility
2014
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 14 no. 2 2014;'The essay addresses the poetic dimension of David Malouf's novels, suggesting that a poetics of possibility can be found in all his work. The poetics of possibility is a function both of Malouf’s thematic interest in the future and of his use of poetic language to draw the reader to imagine various kinds of ways of experiencing and knowing the world. The essay draws upon the philosophy of Ernst Bloch to illuminate the utopian dimension of Malouf’s work, whether in seeing the radiance of possibility in simple objects, the silent ‘presence’ at the centre of language, or the possibility of a different kind of future that Australian society might have experienced.' (Publication abstract)
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Spaces of Hybridity : Creating a Sense of Belonging through Spatial Awareness
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 2010; (p. 93-107) -
'A Delicate Business' : David Malouf's Shorter Prose
2000
single work
criticism
— Appears in: World Literature Today , Autumn vol. 74 no. 4 2000; (p. 759-768) Argues that Malouf's shorter fiction, 'being more inclined toward the telling image than towards discursiveness, is able more consciously to tap into his creative strengths and provide new insights into old experiences' (760). - y David Malouf South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1993 Z165274 1993 single work criticism
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[Review] Antipodes : Stories
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: Kunapipi , vol. 8 no. 3 1986; (p. 138-140)
— Review of Antipodes : Stories 1985 selected work short story -
Upside Down at the Top of his Form
1985
single work
review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , August no. 16 1985; (p. 16-17)
— Review of Antipodes : Stories 1985 selected work short story -
Antipodean Attitudes
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: The CRNLE Reviews Journal , no. 2 1986; (p. 125-126)
— Review of Antipodes : Stories 1985 selected work short story -
[Review] Strong-Man from Piraeus and Other Stories [and] Antipodes : Stories
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: Social Alternatives , vol. 5 no. 4 1986; (p. 58)
— Review of Strong-Man from Piraeus and Other Stories 1983 selected work short story ; Antipodes : Stories 1985 selected work short story -
[Review] The Persimmon Tree and Other Stories [and] Antipodes : Stories
1986
single work
review
— Appears in: Listener , 9 January 1986; (p. 29)
— Review of The Persimmon Tree and Other Stories 1943 selected work short story ; Antipodes : Stories 1985 selected work short story -
Spaces of Hybridity : Creating a Sense of Belonging through Spatial Awareness
2010
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Postcolonial Issues in Australian Literature 2010; (p. 93-107) - y Sheer Edge : Aspects of Identity in David Malouf's Writing Lund : Lund University Press , 1991 Z55263 1991 single work criticism biography
- y David Malouf South Melbourne : Oxford University Press , 1993 Z165274 1993 single work criticism
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David Malouf : Johnno, Short Stories, Poems, Essays and Interview : Introduction
1990
single work
criticism
biography
— Appears in: David Malouf : Johnno, Short Stories, Poems, Essays and Interview 1990; (p. ix-xxiv) -
Travellers' Tales
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Studies , November no. 6 1992; (p. 68-80)