Harland’s Half Acre (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: David Malouf
- First Published: 1984
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Impressionistic realism
- Time of Work: The early 1900’s to the 1980’s
- Setting: South Queensland, Australia
- Genres: Long fiction, Impressionistic literature
- Subjects: Culture, History, Family or family life, Suffering, Suicide, Twentieth century, Art or artists, Visions, epiphanies, or revelations, Land settlement, Australia or Australians
- Locales: Australia, South Queensland, Australia
Characters Discussed
Frank Harland, an Australian painter. At first a gawky country boy, Harland develops into an awkward, reticent, and eccentric man, described as “leathery” in appearance. His acute sensitivity sets him apart, so that he comes to epitomize the artist struggling against a bourgeois society. The novel traces his development as a painter, and the other characters acquire importance only as they contribute to or detract from that process. Although a fully realized character, Frank emerges as the quintessential Australian artist who constructs his art from the...
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