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The unfortunate thing was that Morrison was in the Guardian, and the Anglophiles in the United States all read the Guardian, so this contaminant briefly entered the American food chain. But, of course, the review itself is a treasure and I wouldn’t want it forgotten, any more than Elizabeth Webby’s. G A I L E : To return to literary prizes: critics like Graham Huggan or Luke Strongman in their analyses of the Booker Prize have pointed out that the prize reiterates older patterns of cultural control.
Part I I I features essays on general aspects and themes in Carey’s fictions. In my own essay contribution (“Towards an Alphabet of Australian Culture: Peter Carey’s Mythistorical Novels”), I take up the author’s lament that Australia essentially lacks culture, stories, myths. The novels under scrutiny (Bliss, True History, My Life as a Fake) are read as both comments on the state of mythogenesis in Australia and as ingredients of a nascent mythology progressing one step towards what George Steiner memorably called the “alphabet of culture”: a country’s stories, sagas, myths.
And, in a funny sort of way, cubism presents its truth like this. To me it’s simply a representation of reality. And it’s always like that – we’re both experiencing this conversation now, but what I think I’m saying to you and what you’re hearing are two different things. So it seems reasonable to represent that. Of course, it’s arrived at intuitively and compulsively, rather than systematically. G A I L E : You said a few minutes ago that there are a number of issues in Australian history which need revision and rethinking because they have been denied.
