The Refuge (2015)
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Can a great book be made from unbalanced or ill-fitting parts, and can those flaws and quirks actually be the crux of its strength, in much the same way the crystal imperfections of an Argyle diamond cause its prized pale-pink sheen? On first encounter, Kenneth Mackenzie’s The Refuge certainly seems a strange beast of a novel: it is not a tale told, but an act remembered. It doesn’t really have subsidiary characters, so much as walk-on cardboard cut-out figures. The first-person narrative strain...s credulity until you surrender yourself to its flow. It is by turns wordy and rapid to a fault; its focus jumps here and there; it is distinctly dreamlike, if not nightmarish—yet life, at least the life we expect to see reflected in a mid-twentieth-century realist Australian novel set in a busy media landscape, does not generally have the texture of a dream. We are caught up in a most unconventional kind of classic, then.
Securely designated classics are often venerable treasures, famous for being famous, so well known we cannot really read them: grand human tapestries in prose, depicting with assured simplicity all the breadth of a particular society’s jostling, intermingling life.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Can a great book be made from unbalanced or ill-fitting parts, and can those flaws and quirks actually be the crux of its strength, in much the same way the crystal imperfections of an Argyle diamond cause its prized pale-pink sheen? On first encounter, Kenneth Mackenzie’s The Refuge certainly seems a strange beast of a novel: it is not a tale told, but an act remembered. It doesn’t really have subsidiary characters, so much as walk-on cardboard cut-out figures. The first-person narrative strain...s credulity until you surrender yourself to its flow. It is by turns wordy and rapid to a fault; its focus jumps here and there; it is distinctly dreamlike, if not nightmarish—yet life, at least the life we expect to see reflected in a mid-twentieth-century realist Australian novel set in a busy media landscape, does not generally have the texture of a dream. We are caught up in a most unconventional kind of classic, then.
Securely designated classics are often venerable treasures, famous for being famous, so well known we cannot really read them: grand human tapestries in prose, depicting with assured simplicity all the breadth of a particular society’s jostling, intermingling life.
What to read after The Refuge?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Kenneth Mckenzie to read onlineMoreLess
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