Border Districts A Fiction
Border Districts by Gerald Murnane is a reprint published by Picador on January 15, 2019, featuring 144 pages in English. This work presents a reflective narrative as a man transitions from a capital city to a remote town in border country, contemplating the remnants of his life as an avid reader and a seeker of meaning. The story unfolds as he reviews the memories, people, and literature that have shaped his existence, all while grappling with the passage of time.
Readers will find a deeply introspective exploration of memory and literature within these pages. The narrative delves into the protagonist’s mental landscape, cataloging the sights and experiences that linger in his mind, including poignant images of a dark-haired woman and the colors of everyday life. Through this journey, Murnane invites contemplation on the significance of literary and personal memories, making Border Districts a notable addition to the realms of fiction and world literature, particularly within the context of Australian storytelling.
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A bittersweet farewell to the world and the word by the Australian master
“The mind is a place best viewed from borderlands . . .”
Border Districts, purportedly the Australian master Gerald Murnane’s final work of fiction, is a hypnotic, precise, and self-lacerating “report” on a life led as an avid reader, fumbling lover, “student of mental imagery,” and devout believer—but a believer not in the commonplaces of religion, but rather in the luminescence of memory and its handmaiden, literature.
In Border Districts, a man moves from a capital city to a remote town in the border country, where he intends to spend the last years of his life. It is time, he thinks, to review the spoils of a lifetime of seeing, a lifetime of reading. Which sights, which people, which books, fictional characters, turns of phrase, and lines of verse will survive into the twilight? A dark-haired woman with a wistful expression? An ancestral house in the grasslands? The colors in translucent panes of glass, in marbles and goldfish and racing silks? Feeling an increasing urgency to put his mental landscape in order, the man sets to work cataloging this treasure, little knowing where his “report” will lead and what secrets will be brought to light.
Border Districts is a jewel of a farewell from one of the greatest living writers of English prose.
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