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Kaboom!
Yes, that was the sound of another long-held illusion hitting the dust!
I knew nothing much about Donald Horne when the biography by Ryan Cropp was shortlisted for the National Biography award. I had read one of his novels and found it derivative, tedious and predictable. But long before that, I had read the 1974 reissue of his most famous book The Lucky Country, published in 1964. To quote my own thoughts from when I reviewed the novel:
Everyone my age knows the name of the Australian journalist, writer, and public intellectual Donald Horne AO (1921-2005) because everyone my age has either read The Lucky Country (1964), or heard everyone else talk about it so much that they thought they didn’t need to read it themselves. Indeed, the title of that book went into the vernacular where it is misused all the time to signify what a beaut country Australia is. Misused because, as the blurb at Goodreads tells anyone who looks it up:
Horne took Australian society to task for its philistinism, provincialism and dependence. The book was a wake-up call to an unimaginative nation, an indictment of a country mired in mediocrity and manacled to its past.
Ouch. But true. It was still mostly true when I read it in my young adulthood, even after three years of a progre
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Once again I’ve been distracted from reading my assorted LitBios of Eleanor Dark because I have been busy close-reading Garry Kissane’s award-winning biography of George Johnston (1912-1970) so that I can lend it to a fellow booklover.
Winner of the Age Book of the Year in 1986, this biography is interesting in its own right but also because of the persisting view that (as Wikipediasuggests) it was the imminent publication of Johnston’s Clean Straw for Nothing that prompted his wife Charmian Clift (1923-1969) to suicide in 1969. It is said that this is because the characterisation of Cressida Morley in the novel exposes Clift’s infidelities during the couple’s sojourn on the Greek island of Hydra where they lived from 1954 to 1964. A posthumously published essay indicates that Clift was troubled by it, but Johnston in his one public comment a couple of months after her death said that ‘Cressida was fictional’. The fact that Cressida the character in the novel is not a writer as Clift was, is also taken by some as an indication that Johnston was diminishing her as a writer and his collaborator. Whatever about that, Garry Kinnane makes it clear that he rejects the accusation:
It is the view of many of their friends, and many who