The Victoria Principle

The Victoria Principle by Michael Farrell


ISBN
9781923106307
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
178
Dimensions
148 x 210mm

InThe Victoria Principle, Michael Farrell extends the humour and narrative drive demonstrated in recent collections such asI Love PoetryandGooglecholiato the short story. The collection begins with a writer character trying to do literary justice to the fear of birds; other stories feature creative activity, such as the conceptual artist who deliberately boils an egg to Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit', or the would-be writers who attend a nude retreat in Nova Scotia. There is pathos, too, in a storyteller's relationship with his sister, and in that of a gay doctor with a straight Italian waiter, who is trying to make ends meet while supporting two children with two different women. The stories also revisit classical and popular myths, such as the judgement of Paris, and the life of Andy Gibb. The associations brought into play can be unexpected or absurd, but the process has its own logic: we may think of these fictions as meta-fictions, as 'thought stories' rather than short stories, offering inflections and reflections on queer Catholicism and mental breakdown, amidst the ongoing contradictions and ironies of contemporary Australian life.
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