Carey, Peter (Vol. 96) - Robert Ross (essay date 1990)
Robert Ross (essay date 1990)
SOURCE: "'It Cannot Not Be There': Borges and Australia's Peter Carey," in Borges and His Successors: The Borgesian Impact on Literature and the Arts, edited by Edna Aizenberg, University of Missouri Press, 1990, pp. 44-58.
[In the following essay, Ross focuses on Carey's short stories as he speculates on the influence of Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges's works on Carey's artistic development.]
You're quite right when you suggest that it might be difficult to say exactly how Borges may have influenced me, also right to suggest that the influence is/was there…. It is there, it cannot not be there.
—PETER CAREY, letter
On first reading Peter Carey's writing, I found it different from other Australian literature, and I resolved this encounter with the unexpected by making broad and perhaps...
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