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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Proofs
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The actor who can't leave the stage - like the sales rep who lives in transit, the stenographer who throws himself on the mercy of the court, the chess master who fakes his own funeral, the judge who swears in witnesses to his dream of auto-execution or the student who steals the identities of excursionists to the Veste Oberhaus in Passau - is at the end of his rope. The personal catastrophes catalogued in the reports, notices, anecdotes, aphorisms and parables that make up Proofs, as in those of its model, Thomas Bernhard's The Voice Imitator, arose in the nature of things, as the final entry 'pseudonym' remarks in a tribute to Bernhard.


 

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Works about this Work

A Year of Experimentation: Australian Fiction Moving On Nigel Krauth , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2013 2013; Westerly , June vol. 58 no. 1 2013; (p. 92-108)
Untitled Heather Taylor Johnson , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 5 no. 1 2012;

— Review of Proofs Christopher Conti , 2012 selected work short story
Love and Loss Rebecca Starford , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 August 2012; (p. 20-21)

— Review of Tarcutta Wake Josephine Rowe , 2012 selected work short story ; Proofs Christopher Conti , 2012 selected work short story
Love and Loss Rebecca Starford , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 August 2012; (p. 20-21)

— Review of Tarcutta Wake Josephine Rowe , 2012 selected work short story ; Proofs Christopher Conti , 2012 selected work short story
Untitled Heather Taylor Johnson , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , November vol. 5 no. 1 2012;

— Review of Proofs Christopher Conti , 2012 selected work short story
A Year of Experimentation: Australian Fiction Moving On Nigel Krauth , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2013 2013; Westerly , June vol. 58 no. 1 2013; (p. 92-108)
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