Inland by Gerald Murnane5/25/2023 ![]() ![]() Inland is the same, and if there were only one word I could use to describe Murnane ‘s narrators it is tentative. I read The Plains a couple of years ago ( see my naïve review) and found it a curious experience. With a set of postmodern characteristics in mind, Murnane starts to make sense. ![]() Murnane is a postmodern author, which means that it’s a good idea to have a look at what postmodernism (PoMo) is before you start reading. Before long he signposts what he is up to with a witty reference to Italo Calvino, and I am reminded of Calvino’s If On A Winter’s Night, A Traveller – that strange, circuitous experience of reading about yourself as a reader, of being inside the book as well, sharing somehow in the writing of it. ( See my review) There is, according to the introduction, also a reference to the American writer Dahlberg, but I’d never heard of him so it was wasted on me. It’s not ‘easy’ but it’s not meant to be: Gerald Murnane is not that kind of writer. Inland is a strange adventure that plays with your mind from the first page. ![]()
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