A Writing Life Helen Garner and Her Work eBook Bernadette Brennan
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Helen Garner is one of Australia’s most important and most admired writers. She is revered for her fearless honesty in the pursuit of her craft.
But Garner also courts controversy, not least because she refuses to be constrained by the rules of literary form. She has never been afraid to write herself into her nonfiction, and many of her own experiences help to shape her fiction. But who is the ‘I’ in Helen Garner’s work?
Bernadette Brennan’s A Writing Life is the first full-length study of Garner’s forty years of work, a literary portrait that maps all of her books against the different stages of her life.
Brennan has had access to previously unavailable papers in Garner’s archive, and she provides a lively and rigorous reading of the books, journals and correspondence of one of Australia’s most beloved women of letters.
Garner has always been a boundary-crosser. Refusing the constrictions of literary genre she has sought to write across and craft her own versions of them. She readily admits to a ‘me’ character in all her work. That character is a carefully constructed self. In her fiction, she unsettles her readers’ assumptions about protagonists by creating ‘Helen’ characters, most blatantly in ‘Little Helen’s Sunday Afternoon’, ‘Habe Dank’ and The Spare Room. In so doing, she demonstrates the complexity of a constructed fictional self.
Dr Bernadette Brennan is an academic and researcher in contemporary Australian writing, literature and ethics. She is the author of a number of publications, including a monograph on Brian Castro and two edited collections Just Words? Australian Authors Writing for Justice (UQP 2008), and Ethical Investigations Essays on Australian Literature and Poetics (Vagabond 2008). She lives in Sydney.
‘Billed as “the first full-length study of Garner’s 40 years of work, a literary portrait that maps all of her books against the different stages of her life”. Well, who wouldn’t want to read that?’ Australian
‘Brennan’s depiction of Garner’s fearless approach to the very difficult subjects of The First Stone, Joe Cinque’s Consolation and This House of Grief is beautifully modulated and a real triumph. She has captured and interpreted an important writer and her work beautifully.’ Books + Publishing
‘Brennan has produced a literary portrait that more than does its subject justice. It is not a biography; Garner was quite clear that she didn’t want that, but because Garner is so often present in her own writing, it’s inevitable that her life is reflected in the discussion of her works. This helps put her works in context, and a picture emerges of an amazing writer…Bernadette Brennan has done us all a great favour in delivering this immensely enjoyable book.’ Mark Rubbo, Readings
‘Brennan is an astute and sensitive reader of Garner’s work.’Big Issue
‘This is literary critique and biography at its finest. Australian Financial Review
‘The writing is clear, measured, and graceful throughout…The readings of the fiction are astute and straightforward, tracing Garner’s development from the allegedly unstructured Monkey Grip, which in fact offers a formal equivalent to the push-me pull-you vagaries of love and junk, through the perfection of The Children’s Bach and the experiments in voice and style in Postcards from Surfers, to the late-style bareness and hardness of The Spare Room.’ Sydney Morning Herald
A Writing Life Helen Garner and Her Work eBook Bernadette Brennan
As a Helen Garner fangirl, have to own up and say that it's impossible for me to be objective about this book - I love it!. Structured around the writing and release of each of Garner's books, Bernadette Brennan had access to HG's archive, as well it seems, her massive circle of friends and family. By accounts, Garner's not always an easy woman, a seeker, an observer with an enormous need to sort out her thoughts and feelings in writing. An understated intellectual, who is fully immersed in many communities. The book is full of wonderful stories, some jar ... but the ending, in particular, is magnificent. I am so happy that I've read this book.Product details
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As a Helen Garner fangirl, have to own up and say that it's impossible for me to be objective about this book - I love it!. Structured around the writing and release of each of Garner's books, Bernadette Brennan had access to HG's archive, as well it seems, her massive circle of friends and family. By accounts, Garner's not always an easy woman, a seeker, an observer with an enormous need to sort out her thoughts and feelings in writing. An understated intellectual, who is fully immersed in many communities. The book is full of wonderful stories, some jar ... but the ending, in particular, is magnificent. I am so happy that I've read this book.
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