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David Foster - The Satirist of Australia (Hardcover, New)
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David Foster - The Satirist of Australia (Hardcover, New)
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David Foster is the most original, challenging, contradictory,
risk-taking and infuriating Australian novelist of his generation.
To date he has published twelve novels, three collections of
novellas and short stories, two books of poetry, and a collection
of essays, with several produced radio plays. Foster writes in an
Australian tradition of idiosyncratic satire and comedy that may be
traced through the work of Joseph Furphy, Miles Franklin, Xavier
Herbert and David Ireland. His novels are the most wide-ranging and
fearless of the Australian novels that have contributed to the late
twentieth-century re-examination of Western ideologies and the
literary forms in which they are expressed. In this first critical
study of David Foster's works, Professor Susan Lever steers us into
penetrating the mysteries of Foster's fiction, and provides
guidance to readers willing to approach them. The book examines the
contradictory nature of his commitments and interests as expressed
mainly in his novels. Each of his works of fiction and poetry in
the order of publication (except for The Adventures of Christian
Rosy Cross and The Pale Blue Crochet Coathanger Cover which are
discussed with similar novels) are discussed. The development of
Foster's philosophical ideas and technique as a novelist over the
35 years of his writing life to date is followed. The book also
examines Foster's letters to Geoffrey Dutton early in his career;
his interviews and essays provide some of the background to these
novels. The book also furnishes a sense of the Australian context
for his work. A brief biography of Foster's early life and a
discussion of his approach to satire is also included.
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