Anthony Macris

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Anthony Macris (born 29 June 1962) is an Australian novelist, critic and academic. He has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, [1] the Age Book of the Year, [2] and been named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist. [3] His creative work has been supported by grants from the Literature Board of the Australia Council. [4] He is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Technology, Sydney. [5] He has been a regular contributor of book reviews, feature articles and essays to the national media, principally in the area of international literary fiction. He has been called a post-grunge lit writer, a reference to an Australian literary genre from the 2000s which emerged following the 1990s grunge lit genre.

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Capital novels

The main concerns of the Capital novels are "the increasing penetration of market forces into everyday life" (Sydney Review of Books), and the effect of "the last several decades of capitalist ‘progress’ ... [on] ‘the life-worlds of ordinary people" (The Conversation).

In Capital, Volume One, Macris employs techniques from the French Nouveau Roman to produce a vital yet impersonal tracking of the movement of dead commodities in a London Underground train station. IN this track of the novel, Macris presents a dystopia of the marketisation of quotidian, globalised life, alluding to Marx's study of the commodity form and to the journey of Leopold Bloom in Joyce's Ulysses. These impersonal chapters focused on the London Underground are contrasted with memoir-like fragments from a failed bildungsroman, in which assemblages of neoliberal capitalism—combining with pop musical and film culture, with the petroleum industry, with the higher education and restaurant sectors—are presented as both subject-forming and subject-de-forming. Working alongside the clearly critical intent of the novel is a joyful, disorienting experimentation with subject, time and place, producing something like a sublime rhythmic composition that, rather than falling into the negative, critical gravity of the novel's content, suggests ways out of this neoliberal dystopia.

Awards

Bibliography

Fiction

Non-fiction

Selected essays and journal articles

Selected literary journalism

Interviews

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References

  1. ↑ "2012 Prime Minister's Literary Awards - Ministry for the Arts". arts.gov.au. Archived from the original on 24 February 2016. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "The picks of the crop: the 38th Age Book of the Year awards". newsstore.fairfax.com.au. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  3. ↑ "A fairytale beginning - Books - Entertainment - smh.com.au". www.smh.com.au. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  4. ↑ Austlit. "Anthony Macris". www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  5. ↑ "Anthony Macris | University of Technology Sydney". www.uts.edu.au. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  6. ↑ "Radical ride through the moronic inferno". TheAustralian. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
  7. ↑ "Contemporary Narrative and Poetics (CNP)". lha.uow.edu.au. Retrieved 14 February 2016.
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