Ryan O'Neill
Auteur de Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers
Œuvres de Ryan O'Neill
Their Brilliant Careers: The Fantastic Lives of Sixteen Extraordinary Australian Writers (1658) 52 exemplaires
Dark Tidings: The Darkborn Saga Book 1 4 exemplaires
First and Last (in The Lifted Brow 6 - SCOTT) 1 exemplaire
Review of Australian Fiction, Volume 4, Issue 6 1 exemplaire
Look Within 1 exemplaire
Dark Tidings (The Darkborn Saga, #1) 1 exemplaire
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- Membres
- 131
- Popularité
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- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 14
- ISBN
- 19
The book opens with the original Henry Lawson short story, a key text in the invention of Australian literature, the relation of white people to the land in the 19th century, but also a work that raises questions about the nature of the Australian experiment. O'Neill then comes up with 99 variations on a theme, ranging from a TV sitcom script to an emoji narrative, a TV guide listing, a Joycean reinterpretation, a crossword, an absurdist play, and so on. This book would be good even for highschool students of the text. Although there are further puzzles to be found within (as in his other book, O'Neill has some wicked fun with in-jokes in the index) many of the interpretations are straightforwardly funny or clever.
An interesting satirist whose career I will follow closely.… (plus d'informations)