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Last Letter to a Reader (Paperback)
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Last Letter to a Reader (Paperback)
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In the first days of spring in his eighty-second year, Gerald
Murnane--perhaps the greatest living writer of English prose--began
a project that would round off his strange career as a novelist. He
would read all of his books in turn and prepare a report on each.
His original intention was to lodge the reports in two of his
legendary filing cabinets: in the Chronological Archive, which
documents his life as a whole, and the Literary Archive, which is
devoted to everything he has written. As the reports grew, however,
they themselves took on the form of a book, a book as beguiling and
hallucinatory, in its way, as the works on which they were meant to
report. These miniature memoirs or stories lead the reader through
the capacious territory Murnane refers to as his mind: they dwell
on the circumstances that gave rise to his writing, on images and
associations, on Murnane's own theories of fiction, and then
memories of a deeply personal kind. The final essay is, of course,
on Last Letter to a Reader itself: it considers the elation and
exhilaration that accompany the act of writing, and offers a moving
finale to what must surely be Murnane's last work, as death
approaches. "Help me, dear one," he writes, "to endure patiently my
going back to my own sort of heaven."
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