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Fiction’s otherness

Conjuring Joseph Conrad
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March 2024, no. 462

One Another by Gail Jones

Text Publishing, $34.99 pb, 220 pp

Fiction’s otherness

Conjuring Joseph Conrad
by
March 2024, no. 462

It is 1992, the year of the Mabo judgment, and Helen, a scholarship student from Tasmania, is undertaking a PhD at Cambridge, writing a thesis titled ‘Cryptomodernism and Empire’. It is on Joseph Conrad, a writer about whom her peers are contemptuous. Helen is dealing with a forlorn and dismissive supervisor, and the disappointment that her experience abroad was not what she had expected. Her ‘fantasy of vigorous literary talk, multisyllabic and theoretical, was soon defeated’.

One Another

One Another

by Gail Jones

Text Publishing, $34.99 pb, 220 pp

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Comment (1)

  • So glad to get this heads up about a new Gail Jones novel. I love her slow, lyrical and wordy style that pulls you in, smothers you in her rich language and nuance and leaves you fulfilled. And I taught Conrad for years....oh the horror, the horror
    Posted by Rob Manning
    01 March 2024

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