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'The Bath Fugues is a meditation on melancholy and art, in the form of three interwoven novellas, centred respectively on an ageing art forger; a Portuguese poet, opium addict and art collector; and a doctor, who has built an art gallery in tropical Queensland. These characters are tied by more than their art, each dealing with questions of deception and discovery, counterfeiting and rewriting, transmission and identity and each stretching the bonds of trust and friendship.' (Publisher's blurb)
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Epigraph: The Goldberg Variations...are a set of 30 variations for harpsichord by Johann Sebastian Bach. First published in 1741...the work is considered to be one of the most important examples of variation form. It is named after Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, who may have been the first performer.
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It is, in short, music which observes neither end nor beginning, music with neither real climax nor real resolution, music which like Baudelaire's lovers rests lightly on the wings of the unchecked wind.
Glenn Gould
Contents
- Beckett's Bicycle, single work novella
- Walter's Brief, single work novella
- Sarraute's Surgery, single work novella
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also large print.
Works about this Work
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Transcultural Writers and Novels in the Age of Global Mobility
Lafayette
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Purdue University Press
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2015
8887143
2015
single work
criticism
'In Transcultural Writers and Novels in the Age of Global Mobility, Arianna Dagnino analyzes a new type of literature emerging from artists’ increased movement and cultural flows spawned by globalization. This "transcultural" literature is produced by authors who write across cultural and national boundaries and who transcend in their lives and creative production the borders of a single culture. Dagnino's book contains a creative rendition of interviews conducted with five internationally renowned writers—Inez Baranay, Brian Castro, Alberto Manguel, Tim Parks, and Ilija Trojanow—and a critical exegesis reflecting on thematical, critical, and stylistical aspects.
'By studying the selected authors’ corpus of work, life experiences, and cultural orientations, Dagnino explores the implicit, often subconscious, process of cultural and imaginative metamorphosis that leads transcultural writers and their fictionalized characters beyond ethnic, national, racial, or religious loci of identity and identity formation. Drawing on the theoretical framework of comparative cultural studies, she offers insight into transcultural writing related to belonging, hybridity, cultural errancy, the "Other," worldviews, translingualism, deterritorialization, neonomadism, as well as genre, thematic patterns, and narrative techniques. Dagnino also outlines the implications of transcultural writing within the wider context of world literature(s) and identifies some of the main traits that characterize “transcultural novels.”' (Publication summary)
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Miles Franklin : Castro on List
2013
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column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 27 March 2013; (p. 23) -
Does Anglophone Chinese Diasporic Avant-Garde Writing Exist?
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 12 no. 2 2012; -
The Bath Fugues by Brian Castro
2011
single work
review
— Appears in: Indigo , Summer no. 6 2011; (p. 146-148)
— Review of The Bath Fugues 2009 selected work novella -
Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Reviews in Australian Studies , vol. 4 no. 3 2010;
— Review of The Bath Fugues 2009 selected work novella
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Review of the Week
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 7 June 2009; (p. 22)
— Review of The Bath Fugues 2009 selected work novella -
Enigmas of Castro's Variations
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 6 June 2009; (p. 26) The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-7 June 2009; (p. 32)
— Review of The Bath Fugues 2009 selected work novella -
Well Read
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 6 June 2009; (p. 26)
— Review of The Bath Fugues 2009 selected work novella -
Fiction Books
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 13 - 14 June 2009; (p. 24)
— Review of The Bath Fugues 2009 selected work novella -
Modulations around Identity
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 27 June 2009; (p. 13)
— Review of The Bath Fugues 2009 selected work novella -
The Fabulator
2009
single work
column
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 6-7 June 2009; (p. 10-11) -
Point Counterpoint
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , May no. 363 2010; (p. 6-7) -
Professor Up for Top Award
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 28 April 2010; (p. 68) -
Pick a Franklin Winner
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: The West Australian , 22 June 2010; (p. 6-7) -
Does Anglophone Chinese Diasporic Avant-Garde Writing Exist?
2012
single work
criticism
— Appears in: JASAL , vol. 12 no. 2 2012;
Awards
- 2010 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
- 2010 shotlisted Queensland Premier's Literary Awards — Best Fiction Book
- 2010 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
- 2010 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) — Award for Fiction
- Sydney, New South Wales,
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cFrance,cWestern Europe, Europe,
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Macao,
cChina,cEast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
- North Queensland, Queensland,