Xavier Herbert

Hadgraft reviews the following monographs:

Martin Boyd by Brenda Niall (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1974).

Xavier Herbert by Harry Heseltine (Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1973).

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Herbert discusses the writing of Capricornia (1938), addressing what he identifies as erroneously reported details about its background and composition. The text of this article…

Discusses and compares drafts, revisions, and typescript fragments of Capricornia (particularly of Chapter Three) with regard to the imaginative vision of the novel.

Despite its having the pioneering life as its subject and something like the family saga for its structure, Xavier Herbert's Capricornia (1938) has little in…

Provides a brief biographical sketch of Xavier Herbert and an overview of his literary career.

Since the finding of the Australian High Court in what has come to be known as the Mabo decision of January 1992, the phrase Terra…

Laurie Clancy believes that Xavier Herbert wrote a good book, Capricornia, nearly fifty years ago. After forty years of silence, conventional short stories, bizarre…

Biographies of writers have maintained their popularity for many years, both here and overseas, a fact sometimes attributed to the chance they give 'busy people'…

In Disturbing Element (1963) Xavier Herbert presents a colourful account of his entry into the world of journalism in Melbourne in 1925. Here he supposedly…

It is now some thirty years since Poor Fellow My Country was published, twenty since Xavier Herbert died. Both novel and author have fallen into…

Provides a checklist of works by and about Xavier Herbert.

Just as we might have thought there was nothing new to be said about Xavier Herbert's flawed achievement, these three books challenge us to rethink…