Meaning of Careyesque | Babel Free

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

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“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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