This collection includes stories of a man who resolves to tell the truth about himself to an audience of women, and another man who searches in the hills around Melbourne for a landscape and a woman that no artist can paint

Landscape with Landscape

Literature & Fiction

Murnane, Gerald

British & Irish

Penguin??Books

A bittersweet farewell to the world and the word by the Australian master
“The mind is a place best viewed from borderlands . . .”
Border Districts, purportedly the Australian master Gerald Murnane’s final work of fiction, is a hypnotic, precise, and self-lacerating “report” on a life led as an avid reader, fumbling lover, “student of mental imagery,” and devout believer―but a believer not in the commonplaces of religion, but rather in the luminescence of memory and its handmaiden, literature. 
In Border Districts, a man moves from a capital city to a remote town in the border country, where he intends to spend the last years of his life. It is time, he thinks, to review the spoils of a lifetime of seeing, a lifetime of reading. Which sights, which people, which books, fictional characters, turns of phrase, and lines of verse will survive into the twilight? A dark-haired woman with a wistful expression? An ancestral house in the grasslands? The colors in translucent panes of glass, in marbles and goldfish and racing silks? Feeling an increasing urgency to put his mental landscape in order, the man sets to work cataloging this treasure, little knowing where his “report” will lead and what secrets will be brought to light. 
Border Districts is a jewel of a farewell from one of the greatest living writers of English prose.

Border Districts: A Fiction

Literary

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Stories from a mind-bending Australian master, “a genius on the level of Beckett” (Teju Cole)
Never before available to readers in this hemisphere, these stories―originally published from 1985 to 2012―offer an irresistible compendium of the work of one of contemporary fiction’s greatest magicians.
While the Australian master Gerald Murnane’s reputation rests largely on his longer works of fiction, his short stories stand among the most brilliant and idiosyncratic uses of the form since Borges, Beckett, and Nabokov. Brutal, comic, obscene, and crystalline, Stream System runs from the haunting “Land Deal,” which imagines the colonization of Australia and the ultimate vengeance of its indigenous people as a series of nested dreams; to “Finger Web,” which tells a quietly terrifying, fractal tale of the scars of war and the roots of misogyny; to “The Interior of Gaaldine,” which finds its anxious protagonist stranded beyond the limits of fiction itself. 
No one else writes like Murnane, and there are few other authors alive still capable of changing how―and why―we read.

Stream System: The Collected Short Fiction of Gerald Murnane

A book about novel-writing, which explains all the elements of experience which form the author's mind. It shows how authors address their readers and how they are taken on cerebral journeys through maps, libraries and the author's past.

Inland

Faber and Faber

The narrator spends twenty years preparing notes and doing research for a documentary film about the plains and people of Australia

The Plains

George Braziller

Tamarisk row

Heinemann

Picador

This new work by Gerald Murnane is a fictionalised autobiography told in thirty sections, each of which begins with the memory of a book that has left an image on the writer's mind. The titles aren't given but the reader follows the clues, recalling in the process a parade of authors, the great, the popular, and the now - forgotten. The images themselves, with their scenes of marital discord, violence and madness, or their illuminated landscapes that point to the consolations of a world beyond fiction, give new intensity to Murnane's habitual concern with the anxieties and aspirations of the writing life, in the absence of religious belief. A History of Books is accompanied by three shorter pieces of fiction which play on these themes, featuring the writer at different ages, as a young boy, a teacher, and an old recluse.

A History of Books

ReadHowYouWant

Discover the Australian novelist ranked by Ladbrokes as a top-five contender for the 2010 Nobel Prize.

Barley Patch (Australian Literature Series)

Dalkey Archive Press

Is it possible to fall in love with a correspondent based entirely on a fascination with his or her handwriting, with a map of the country they live in, with the syllables of their name? What about, then, a fictional character, in a book about a country one has never, and will never, visit?

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Landscape with Landscape

Border Districts: A Fiction

Stream System: The Collected Short Fiction of Gerald Murnane

Inland

The Plains

Tamarisk row

Border Districts: A Fiction

A History of Books

Barley Patch (Australian Literature Series)

Inland