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The Great World is a 1990 Miles Franklin literary award -winning novel by the Australian author David Malouf. [1] Synopsis. It is an epic novel telling the story of two Australians during the turmoil of World War I; and their imprisonment by the Japanese during World War II. Critical reception.
- David Malouf
- 1990
27 dic 1989 · The Great World is a sweeping historical epic describing the fortunes of two Australian families between two great economic crises, the Great Depression and the stock market crash of 1987. Vic and Digger (Albert), the two central figures, are both born into poverty in the 1920s in smalltown Australia.
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The Great World is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and of fall from innocence, of survival and witness. Absorbed by the twentieth-century history of Australian life, the novel focuses on the unlikely friendship of two men who meet as POWs of the Japanese during WWII: Digger Keen, and Vic Curran.
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This chapter discusses The Great World, Malouf's novel that has a multiple-worlds orientation and is a novel of transactions. It addresses the questions posed by this novel, which are how one would live in the new world of post-war Australia and what kind of history the novel tries to give.
The Great World by David Malouf. by Gerard Windsor •. April 1990, no. 119. Initial appearances notwithstanding, The Great World is not a grand, epic title. It is a phrase of the wide-eyed naïf, gaping at the wondrous, which is anything beyond his experience, especially any tawdry, flashy concoction.
But THE GREAT WORLD is more than a novel of war. Ranging over seventy years of Australian life, from Sydney's teeming King's Cross to the tranquil backwaters of the Hawkesbury River, it is a remarkable novel of self-knowledge and lost innocence, of survival and witness.
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