David Malouf Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

In the late afternoon of a day in February, that hottest of Australian summer months, when a brutal sun stood bronze above the river flats which you may see from the dormitory windows of Chatterton, Charles came to the school with his mother, walking from the railway station to the gates by a private path across a burnt, untidy field, overhung with Cape lilacs that still drooped, dusty and melancholy...In the lower part of his belly fear kicked and pulsed like a child in the womb, ready to be born. Fifteen-year-old Charles Fox is sent away to boarding school, innocent, alone and afraid. There one of his masters develops an intense attachment to him. But when Charles meets Margaret, a girl staying at a nearby farm for the holidays, he is besotted, and a passionate, unforgettable romance begins. Published in London in 1937 to wide acclaim, The Young Desire It is a stunning debut novel about coming of age: an intimate and lyrical account of first love, and a rich evocation of rural Western Australia. It won the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, and is now back in print for the first time in years with a new introduction by David Malouf.

In seinem jüngsten Roman erzählt der australische Autor David Malouf eine berührende Geschichte von Verlust, Trauer, Wut und Ohnmacht, die uns in die Antike führt. Er thematisiert universelle menschliche Fragen wie Alter, Würde, Einsamkeit und Lebenssinn. Inspiriert vom 24. Gesang der Ilias von Homer, beschreibt er, wie der alte König Priamos von Troja Achilles um die Herausgabe des Leichnams seines Sohnes Hektor bittet. Achilles, von Schmerz über den Tod seines Freundes Patroklos getrieben, hat Hektor getötet und dessen Leichnam geschändet. Trotz der Warnungen seiner Stadt begibt sich Priamos in das griechische Lager, um seinen Sohn auszulösen, begleitet von Somax, einem einfachen Fuhrmann, dessen Wagen das Lösegeld transportiert. Somax, eine von Malouf liebevoll gestaltete Figur, ermöglicht Priamos erstmals einen Einblick in das Leben seiner Untertanen und deren Sorgen. Beide Männer teilen den Schmerz über den Verlust ihrer Söhne, wobei Somax’ Erinnerungen Trost spenden, während Priamos eine distanzierte Beziehung zu seinen Kindern hatte. Schließlich treffen Priamos und Achilles aufeinander und überwinden ihre Wut, um Mitgefühl für den Verlust des anderen zu zeigen. Priamos kann Hektors Leichnam freikaufen und ihm die gebührenden Riten angedeihen lassen. Maloufs Roman war auf der Shortlist des International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2011.

A young man going off to war tries to make sense of his place in the world he is leaving; a composer's life plays itself out as a complex domestic cantata; an accident on a hunting trip speaks volumes, which its inarticulate victim never could; and a down-to-earth woman stubbornly tries to keep her feet on the ground at Ayers Rock. Malouf's men and women are together but curiously alone, looking for something they seem to have missed, or missed out on, in life. Powerfully rooted in the heat and the dust of the vast Australian continent, this is a heartbreakingly beautiful and richly satisfying collection by a master storyteller, one of the great writers of our time.

From the image of a small boy entranced by his mother's GI Escort, yet still hoping for the return of a father 'missing in action', to the portrait of an adult writer trying to piece together a defining image of his late father, these outstanding stories conjure up with sharp intensity the memories and events that make a man. These powerfully vivid stories range over more than a century of Australian life, from green tropical lushness to 'blacksoil country', from scrub and outback to city streets - evoking dark shadows beneath a bright sun, and lives shaped by the ghosts of history and the rhythms of unruly nature.

Born on a poor dairy farm in Queensland, Frank Harland's life is centred on his great artistic gift, his passionate love for his father and four brothers and his need to repossess, through a patch of land, his family's past.

The year is 1827, and in a remote hut on the high plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk.

In den dreißiger Jahren des 19. Jahrhunderts treffen zwei Männer im australischen Busch aufeinander: Der eine, einziger Überlebender einer Bande von Outlaws, soll am nächsten Tag gehenkt werden, der andere soll die Hinrichtung überwachen. In den Geschichten, die in dieser schicksalshaften Nacht erzählt werden, geht es um die seltsamen Zufälligkeiten des Lebens. Maloufs Roman ist Abenteuerroman, Entwicklungsroman, Ideenroman, und es geht um Dinge wie Moral und Gerechtigkeit, die Unvollkommenheit des Lebens wie des Gesetzes, um die Wirren des Schicksals und die Macht der Liebe.