Why Australian, and American, why indeed all, historians should read Les Murray's Fredy Neptune.(Critical Essay)

From: Journal of Australian Studies | Date: December 1, 2001| Author: Bickerton, Ian J | Copyright information

In the first place, because Fredy Neptune is one of those mind-altering books. Murray's vision, his imagination, his inventiveness, and his seemingly effortless mastery of the language, create a book that is quite simply awe-inspiring. Murray's colloquial language and vernacular verse -- as he says, almost entirely untouched by literary usage -- carries the reader along at break-neck speed, spellbound, eagerly awaiting the next narrative twist, the next conceit that conveys, in its...

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