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‘Original storytelling is one of the marker traits of Peter Carey’s fictions: it is this characteristic that explains why there is no such thing as a typical Carey novel, only certain features and concerns which recur throughout his fictions.’ (p 84)
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Epigraph: And while we fret and writhe in bandaged uncertainty…we fabulate. We make up a story to cover the facts we don’t know or can’t accept; we keep a few true facts and spin a new story round them. Our panic and our pain are only eased by soothing fabulation; we call it history. – Julian Barnes
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Strategies of an Illywhacker (III) : Telling History as Story
Subjects:
- Illywhacker 1985 single work novel
- Bliss 1981 single work novel
- True History of the Kelly Gang 2000 single work novel
- The Tax Inspector 1991 single work novel
- Oscar and Lucinda 1988 single work novel
- My Life as a Fake 2003 single work novel
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