![]() ![]() My reason for saying that was that I had covered this book in my course work 7 or 8 years ago and had thought then that Malouf, with his hero an Irish Catholic in the English Army in the mid 19 th Century, had entirely airbrushed the ongoing English occupation of Ireland, and furthermore, that to the extent that the ostensible setting of the novel was outback Australia, there was only passing reference made to the Aboriginal inhabitants.Ĭomment in haste, repent at leisure would seem to be a good motto for the blogosphere, as elsewhere. David Malouf, and his novels The Conversations at Curlow Creek (1996) and Remembering Babylon (1993), have been brought to mind by a recent post at Whispering Gums ( Spotlight on David Malouf) to which I commented that I had found The Conversations at Curlow Creek “dishonest”. ![]()
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