The Best Australian Essays 2015
“It is brimful of overlapping visions: realist, modernist, collective and Nietzschean. Its characters, their lives cramped by the depression, are all too aware of being thwarted. The novel takes its form from the way their paths cross in the lending libraries, public lecture halls and workers’ newspapers of a city in the grip of change – a 1920s Sydney in which the Harbour Bridge is half built and covered in cranes, and small businesses are pushing out the colonial houses in the city centre. Ful...l of talk, and ideas, the novel makes Sydney appear as busy and full of secret niches as Conrad or Woolf’s London. It should be called Seven Poor Men of Bloomsbury, quipped fellow novelist Miles Franklin meanly, among the many from the moment the book was published to accuse the author of overreaching. But the novel’s reach is the point. Seven Poor Men of Sydney is a major work; its best description remains that of Stead’s life partner, William Blake, when he read it in manuscript. It ‘contains mountain peaks’.MoreLess
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