Landscape with Landscape

Landscape with Landscape was Gerald Murnane’s fourth book, after The Plains, and his first collection of short fiction. When it was first published, thirty years ago, it was cruelly reviewed. “I feel sorry for my fourth—eldest, which of all my book—children was the most brutally treated in its early years,” Murnane writes in his foreword to this new edition. In hindsight it can be seen to contain some of his best writing, and to offer a wide—ranging exploration of the different landscapes w...