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Wallace-Crabbe argues that Such is Life suffers from an excess of artifice and concludes that Furphy's realism leaves out too much of life: goodness and positive human values. Wallace-Crabbe concludes, "Far more than any question of structural over-ingenuity or an occasional act of garrulousness, [the] tendency to simply acquiesce in an amoral and fatalistic universe seems the important weakness of Such is Life".
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Australian Literary Criticism
1964
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 24 no. 1 1964; (p. 20-41)
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Australian Literary Criticism
1964
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 24 no. 1 1964; (p. 20-41)
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Joseph Furphy, Realist
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- Such Is Life : Being Certain Extracts from the Diary of Tom Collins 1897 single work novel
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