THE JANET FRAME QUESTION.(Review)

Quadrant | April 1, 2001| | Copyright

IN THE CENTURY of materialisms and externality which have yet to escape, Janet Frame became one of the w major writers of the inner life. Born in Dunedin 1924, after much travel she now lives there quietly near her sister Her twenty-first book and probably last novel, The Carpathians, dates from 1988. A life-threatening illness halted by surgery helped her confront the motivating terror of death (datable to the early deaths of first one then a second sister, both while swimming) and surmount it. This has relieved her of the urgent need to write, according to this new and ...

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