While his work may respond to Derridian readings, it comes alive when compared to Brontë’s paracosmic imagination, Proust’s theory of art, and the circular regeneration of James’ late writing. However, when Murnane’s work is read against some of his favourite author’s, Emily Brontë, Marcel Proust and Henry James, the fiction speaks of a different methodology. His recent fiction, with its ever spiralling self-referential nature, may only encourage this response. Critical response to Murnane’s earlier fiction (before his break) often positioned him within the tradition of post-modern literary theory, particularly deconstructionist accounts of language. After ‘giving up’ publishing in 1995, he began again with the novel Barley Patch in 2009, and later came to write a work called A History of Books (2012), followed by his latest novel A Million Windows (2014). Gerald Murnane has been, for some forty years, trying to describe his life through fiction. Honours thesis completed at the University of Melbourne in 2015.
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