Essays
Essays Two: On Proust, translation, foreign languages, and the City of Arles by Lydia Davis
by Frances Wilson •
Westerly Vol. 57, No. 2 edited by Delys Bird and Tony Hughes-d’Aeth
by Anthony Lynch •
What a wonderful thing is the essay! What a hymn to the human mind and its vagaries and cogitations – to its humanness. All honour to Australian Book Review and the Cultural Fund of Copyright Agency Limited for celebrating it with the Calibre Prize – and, of course, to our prize-winning hymnists.
To celebrate the essay with this degree of fanfare shows a certain amount of chutzpah, I think – of ‘courage’ in the Sir Humphrey Appleby sense of the word. (‘A courageous decision, Minister.’)
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