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Alternative title: Southerly at Seventy
Issue Details: First known date: 2009... no. 5 2009 of Long Paddock est. 2007 Long Paddock
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 2009 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Lost in Diversion : Repetition and Ennui in Antoni Jach’s The Weekly Card Game, Jean-François Vernay , single work criticism
'If anything, The Weekly Card Game (1994) reads like a hazardous experiment with the conventions of the novel. You have to be something of a gambler when you put tedium vitae at the core of a narrative. Naturally, very few sensible writers would dare take up this risky challenge in an increasingly market-oriented publishing industry, as action-packed and tension-building novels dominated by an outstanding central character are more likely to turn into bestsellers than contemplative narratives. And yet, Antoni Jach, who is all too conscious that he is playing for high stakes when pushing the exploration of boredom to endurable limits, has a card up his sleeve - a terse and measured prose sprinkled with deadpan humour with which he skilfully manages to entertain his readership. This essay will focus on the multifaceted expressions of boredom in The Weekly Card Game and relate them to the principle of repetition that pervades the narrative in order to examine the philosophical and psychological underpinnings of ennui.' (http://www.brandl.com.au/Southerly/southerly%20longpaddock/2-2009/Jachs.htm)
A Drive In The Country, Raelee Chapman , single work short story
The Final Saga of War, Kim Farleigh , single work short story
The Ghost at the Wedding by Shirley Walker, Tessa Lunney , single work review
— Review of The Ghost at the Wedding Shirley Walker , 2009 single work biography ;
Patrick O’Neil, Sideways : Travels With Kafka, Siang Lu , single work review
— Review of Sideways : Travels with Kafka, Hunter S. and Kerouac Patrick O'Neil , 2009 single work autobiography ;
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