The specific city-in-progress he ends up visiting is never revealed. Gemmy lives outside a string of an early Queensland settlement. The point of view shifts throughout the novel to bolster the plot and mimic how truth and insight is gradually discovered. In Remembering Babylon, Malouf gives a close third person tale that follows Gemmy Fairley. As with An Imaginary life(his 1978 novella that follows Virgil’s exile in contemporary Mongolia) Malouf’s work deals with isolation, the nuances of language acquisition, and subjectivity across cultures and times. The novel, which won several literary awards, follows a European child’s clashing experience in a non-western land.Its inspiration comes from the true observations of a British sailor, James “Gemmy” Morrill. Australian author David Malouf published Remembering Babylon in 1993.
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