Dream Stuff
Chatto & Windus, $35.00 hb, 185 pp
Short Stories
Dream Stuff by David Malouf
by Ihab Hassan •
This collection is well named: dreams drive its narratives. Dreams or something like dreams – ghosts, memories, shadowy gleams. We are always close to the ‘mystery of suspended expectation’, as Malouf puts it in the title story, but never quite penetrate it. In dreams, you might say, begin responsibilities – that’s Yeats – and yes, flashes of knowledge, obscure reconciliations.
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