y separately published work icon Mezzomorto single work   novel  
Issue Details: First known date: 1934... 1934 Mezzomorto
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A novel which narratively presents a series of short tales, these stories form part of 'a psychological experiment, conducted by an Austrian specialist in spiritualism. He constructs romances in which a dissatisfied and repressed Australian married man, nearing middle life, seeks relief from his longing for the world of his ancestors and from the depressing effects of his drab home-life on an Australian station. He is psychologically induced to play imaginatively the roles of the leading characters. Between the stories there are discussions on his emotional reactions. Throughout the work there are reflections on the enjoyment of romances, both real and imaginative, and on the relation between the illusions of experience and the actualities of life.' (Source: Miller, Australian Literature from its Beginnings to 1935, 1940)

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  • Epigraph: Matri Inferiæ

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Better Half-Dead than Read? The 'Mezzomorto' Cases and Their Implications for Literary Culture in the 1930s Ben Goldsmith , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literature and the Public Sphere : Refereed Proceedings of the 1998 [ASAL] Conference 1999; (p. 80-89)
Focuses on two libel cases arising from Brian Penton's review of Mezzomorto, viewing them as points of entry into Australian literary politics in the 1930s, and discusses the literary feud between P.R. Stephensen and Brian Penton.
Stephensen v 'The Bulletin' and Penton 1936 single work column
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 4 November vol. 57 no. 2960 1936; (p. 5)
Mezzomorto 1934 single work review
— Appears in: Desiderata , 1 November no. 22 1934; (p. 23)

— Review of Mezzomorto Vivian Crockett , 1934 single work novel
A Reader's Notebook Nettie Palmer , 1934 single work review
— Appears in: All About Books , 14 November vol. 6 no. 11 1934; (p. 207-208)

— Review of The End of a Childhood and Other Stories Henry Handel Richardson , 1934 selected work short story ; Mezzomorto Vivian Crockett , 1934 single work novel ; Iron in the Fire Edgar Morrow , 1934 single work autobiography
Through Muddle to 'Half Death' Conn Bennett , 1934 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 10 October vol. 55 no. 2852 1934; (p. 2,5)

— Review of Mezzomorto Vivian Crockett , 1934 single work novel
A Reader's Notebook Nettie Palmer , 1934 single work review
— Appears in: All About Books , 14 November vol. 6 no. 11 1934; (p. 207-208)

— Review of The End of a Childhood and Other Stories Henry Handel Richardson , 1934 selected work short story ; Mezzomorto Vivian Crockett , 1934 single work novel ; Iron in the Fire Edgar Morrow , 1934 single work autobiography
Mezzomorto 1934 single work review
— Appears in: Desiderata , 1 November no. 22 1934; (p. 23)

— Review of Mezzomorto Vivian Crockett , 1934 single work novel
Through Muddle to 'Half Death' Conn Bennett , 1934 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 10 October vol. 55 no. 2852 1934; (p. 2,5)

— Review of Mezzomorto Vivian Crockett , 1934 single work novel
Stephensen v 'The Bulletin' and Penton 1936 single work column
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 4 November vol. 57 no. 2960 1936; (p. 5)
Better Half-Dead than Read? The 'Mezzomorto' Cases and Their Implications for Literary Culture in the 1930s Ben Goldsmith , 1999 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literature and the Public Sphere : Refereed Proceedings of the 1998 [ASAL] Conference 1999; (p. 80-89)
Focuses on two libel cases arising from Brian Penton's review of Mezzomorto, viewing them as points of entry into Australian literary politics in the 1930s, and discusses the literary feud between P.R. Stephensen and Brian Penton.
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