David Malouf
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David Malouf
（Australian writers）
Oxford University Press, 1993
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Bibliography: p. 110-114
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David Malouf is one of Australia's most popular novelists, and also one of its most elusive. Drawing on the whole range of his work - fiction, poetry, essays, his play and his libretti - Ivor Indyk presents Malouf as both a primitive and a romantic, a writer who draws deeply on the rhythms of nature in his expression of desires which go largely unrecognised in the social domain. Indyk's study explores the hidden logic of Malouf's art, revealing an underlying technique that works through emblem and analogy, releasing energies inhibited by more direct forms of expression. This emblematic technique allows Malouf to probe the dark side of desire, its relationship to violence, savagery and even death, while, on the other hand, it underwrites his moments of poetic illumination as he strives towards a visionary apprehension of unity and belonging.
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