Meaning of Careyesque | Babel Free

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Characteristic of Peter Carey (born 1943), Australian novelist.

Examples

“PETER CAREY is almost alone among contemporary novelists in never writing the same book twice.[…]There is, by now, this fifth novel, a definitely Careyesque body of concerns; the carnival, the fragility and terrifying energy of art, a strange knot of ideas which can be summed up as Heaven, Hell, and Disneyland.”

“Peter Carey summons and subverts the myth in this ‘true and secret’ history of Ned Kelly.[…]Its form⟳ is indeed Careyesque, from the outset playing with notions of invention, lies and truth, a preoccupation present⟳ in earlier novels such as Illywhacker.”

“In fact, Conrad assiduously weaves into his narrative novelists’ and poets’ imaginative responses to the tensions and self-inflicted incongruities between the town and the scrub, with frequent references to Murray Bail, Patrick White, Peter Carey and Les Murray.[…]Peter Raftos’s Careyesque anti-capitalist parable ‘Quark’ is also memorable.”

“Peter Carey is the first of the two Australian authors considered in this study⟳ whom critics often refer⟳ to as a ‘prophet’.[…]This represents a prime example of the characteristic Careyesque combination of compassionate empathy towards the characters and the cold analysis of satire.”

“Careyesque features such as self-consciousness, playing with reader expectations, a concern⟳ with authenticity and fakery, an obsession about lies and truths, all fall⟳ into place⟳ as components of a fictional discourse on controversial issues of Australia’s past and present⟳ – many of which are political potatoes of the hottest kind.”

“The novels of Kate Grenville, Peter Carey, and Kim Scott, in this respect⟳, can only be regarded as literary forms that are produced in, for, and by a particular contemporary colonial culture.[…]We might find⟳ ourselves wishing for an adjacent Indigenous story of place⟳ and space, even reportage in the Careyesque sense⟳, or an addled diatribe from Holland’s point⟳ of view⟳, so that Holland’s own⟳ botanical obsessions might be more fully ironized – so that the character’s claim⟳ on the landscape might read⟳ as an imposition, a claim⟳ “by all other [here we read⟳: English] national landscapes” on contested country.”

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