Dream Stuff (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: David Malouf
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Short fiction
- Time of Work: Mostly the last half of the twentieth century
- Setting: Australia, from Brisbane to the bush
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: Mythology or myths, Twentieth century, Dreams, Australia or Australians
- Locales: Australia
David Malouf is best known in his native Australia as a novelist and a poet. His novel Remembering Babylon was short-listed for England’s prestigious Booker Prize in 1993, and in 1996 he won the inaugural IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, perhaps the most lucrative literary prize in the world. In these eight tales and one long novelistic story he demonstrates the poet’s fascination with the short story, which has always been the most lyrical of prose forms.
Several common denominators link the stories, the two most predominant being the primitive nature of the Australian...
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