Henry James
In the program for the première of Voss in Adelaide in 1986, David Malouf observed:
... (read more)No libretto can reproduce the novel from which it is drawn. A novel, especially a great one, is itself: unique, irreplaceable. The best a libretto can do is reproduce the experience of the book in a new and radically different form, allowing the form itself to determine what the experience will be.
Fellowships galore
The November 13 attacks on ordinary citizens in Paris have outraged and galvanised the world community. We share this sense of revulsion. Australia has a large French population and a rich tradition of Francophilia. Our sympathies go to our French readers and to the families of all the victims. Words, at such times, are de trop. Not La Marseillaise
The answer could only be yes. Or,
Dust without dimension
(as James would have it) it was a question,
the way she turned back to him
seemed to say, that deserved