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Robert Dessaix expresses the view that 'the act of writing is an act of resistance against the mortal condition - not mortality, but the mortal condition, and not in the sense of winning the writer immortality of the clichéd kind ... but in the sense of deepening and magnifying the lived moment while writing'.
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An edited version of the 2011 Seymour Biography Lecture, delivered at the National Library of Australia, 24 October 2011 and repeated during Adelaide Writers' Week, 8 March 2012.
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'So Completely French'
2012
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— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 341 2012; (p. 4) Leigh Swinbourne expresses his concern at Robert Dessaix's 'invention' of a major figure in Dessaix's Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev. Dessaix had discussed his narrative 'invention' in the 2011 Seymour Lecture, 'Pushing against the Dark'.
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'So Completely French'
2012
single work
correspondence
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 341 2012; (p. 4) Leigh Swinbourne expresses his concern at Robert Dessaix's 'invention' of a major figure in Dessaix's Twilight of Love: Travels with Turgenev. Dessaix had discussed his narrative 'invention' in the 2011 Seymour Lecture, 'Pushing against the Dark'.
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