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Peter Carey is one of the most richly awarded and critically acclaimed novelists of the present day. Most of his fictions relate to questions of Australian history and identity. Rewriting History argues that taken together Carey's novels make up a fictional biography of Australia. The reading proposed here considers both key events in the life of the subject of Carey's biography (such as the exploration of the interior of the continent, the dispossession of the Aborigines, the convict experience, the process of Australia's coming of age as a postcolonial country) as well as its identity....

Peter Carey is one of Australia's finest creative writers, much admired by both literary critics and a worldwide reading public. While academia has been quick to see his fictions as exemplars of postcolonial and postmodern writing strategies, his general readership has been captivated by his deadpan sense of humour, his quirky characters, the outlandish settings and the grotesqueries of his intricate plots. After three decades of prolific writing and multiple award-winning, Carey stands out in the world of Australian letters as designated heir to Patrick White. Fabulating Beauty pays...

Die Welt liegt in Trümmern, überall Ruinen und Staub, nur Reste von Vegetation. Die Sonne sieht man kaum, nachts herrscht völlige Finsternis. Nur wenige haben überlebt. In dieser untergegangenen Welt kämpfen ein Vater und sein kleiner Sohn ums Überleben, versuchen Nahrung aufzutreiben, neue Kleidung und sich davor zu schützen, gefressen zu werden. Eine düstere Utopie, für die McCarthy 2007 den Pulitzer-Preis erhielt.