Antipodes (story collection)

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Antipodes
AuthorDavid Malouf
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
PublisherChatto and Windus
Publication date
1985
Media typePrint
Pages160 pp
ISBN0701128518
Preceded byHarland's Half Acre 
Followed byUntold Tales 

Antipodes (1985) is a collection of short stories by Australian writer David Malouf. It was published by Chatto and Windus in 1985.[1]

The collection includes 13 stories by the author from a variety of literary magazines.[1]

Contents[edit]

  • "Southern Skies"
  • "A Trip to the Grundelsee"
  • "The Empty Lunch-Tin"
  • "Sorrows and Secrets"
  • "That Antic Jezebel"
  • "The Only Speaker of his Tongue"
  • "Out of the Stream"
  • "The Sun in Winter"
  • "Bad Blood"
  • "A Change of Scene"
  • "In Trust"
  • "A Traveller's Tale"
  • "A Medium"

Dedication[edit]

  • "To Judith Rodriguez and Thomas W. Shapcott."

Critical reception[edit]

Writing in The Canberra Times reviewer Marion Halligan noted: "Most of the stories involve European-Australian confrontations, in their countries or ours. But these don't have the relatively simple complexities of Henry James, where the dichotomies of good and bad, positive and negative, vitality and corruption, in old and new societies, are clear enough. Here they are variable and muddled...Malouf is already admired as apoet and novelist. Readers of literary magazines (that is, almost nobody but would-be publishees of those magazines) will have read some of these stories before. It's good to have them collected together."[2]

Publication history[edit]

After its original publication in 1985[3] the collection was reprinted as follows:

The collection was also translated into Swedish in 1988, and German in 1999.[1]

Awards[edit]

The collection won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction in 1985.[6]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Antipodes by David Malouf". Austlit. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  2. ^ ""Malouf's complex opposites"". The Canberra Times, 13 April 1985, p18. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  3. ^ "Antipodes (Chatto and Windus 1985)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  4. ^ "Antipodes (Penguin 1986)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  5. ^ "Antipodes (Vintage 1999)". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  6. ^ "Austlit — Vance Palmer Prize 1985". Austlit. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
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