What is the quintessential Australian novel?
Anonymous
11/5/2025, 1:30:51 PM
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>>24857463 (OP)
maybe something about crime or stealing land
Anonymous
11/5/2025, 2:40:53 PM
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>>24857577
The “quintessential Australian novel” would be something boring as fuck because every self-conscious dickhead has been trying to write “national literature” for the past century. It’s so dry. The actual best novel to capture the Australian spirit was probably DH Lawrence’s ‘Kangaroo’ and he wasn’t even in the country for more than a year. So instead I will mention other interesting Australian books. One of them is ‘The Everlasting Secret Family’ by Frank Moorhouse. It is a collection of four different short stories. One of them is about a liberal woman who gets raped by an Aboriginal man. The eponymous story is about a secret society of pederasts in the conservative party.
Anonymous
11/5/2025, 2:45:44 PM
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>>24857570
Why doesn't anyone mention Patrick White? He literally won a Nobel Prize.
Anonymous
11/5/2025, 4:36:19 PM
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>>24857463 (OP)
Voss
Kangaroo
The Plains
L'Académie
Womb to Let
An Anzac Muster
[untitled lofi novel debut]
