Peter Otto

‘Peter Otto’s essay … argues that the novel’s temporal frame, and its evocation of a species of Gothicism, challenges conventional periodisation’ (p.4). The author argues that ‘the space of engagement conjured by our … slow reading of An Imaginary Life…

The author’s account of Fly Away Peter is intended ‘to raise the question of the relation between Malouf’s closely intertwined narratives of the Great War and the formation of Australian identity and, on the other hand, Aboriginal narratives of dispossession…