Xavier Pons

A. D. Hope and the Apocalyptic Splendour of the Sexes

Among Australian poets, few owe a greater part of their inspiration to Eros than A.D. Hope. 'Love and desire have prompted some of his best…

1 October 2000

Xavier Pons

Dramatising the Self: Beverley Farmer’s Fiction

There is a clear autobiographical dimension to Beverley Farmer's fiction: her own life and experience provide the material that goes into her writing, and the…

1 October 1995

Xavier Pons

‘Savage Paradise’: History, Violence and the Family in Some Recent Australian Fiction

Discusses David Malouf's Harland's Half Acre (1984), Thomas Keneally's A Family Madness (1985) and Rodney Hall's Captivity Captive (1988), arguing that 'All three insist, in…

1 June 1991

Xavier Pons

Impossible Coincidences: Narrative Strategy in Brian Castro’s Birds of Passage

Discusses the 'metarealistic' narrative strategy employed by Castro, 'the purpose of which is to unlock the gates of alienation'. Argues that the strategy 'essentially consists…

1 October 1990

Xavier Pons

The Battlers: Kylie Tennant and the Australian Tradition

The Battlers, generally regarded as Kylie Tennant's most successful and probably most characteristic novel, cannot be properly understood without reference to what may conveniently…

1 October 1974

Xavier Pons

Australian Novels in French

Pons gives an overview of Australian literature in French translation, and their reception in France.

1 October 1974