Voices from the Corner
First published in 1999 by Fine-Lit.
“Liberman’s variously quirky, wry, earnest, harrowing, questioning and iconoclastic narratives continue to carve a very individual niche in Australian writing.”
Contents:
- St Kilda Madonna
- The Promise
- Hegera’s Curse
- The Messiah in Acland Street
- The Soul of Paul Gauguin
- Keinfreind’s Golem
- The Scar
- Till All Has Been Said and All Has Been Done
- The Luck of the Draw
- Beinish Gotteskind
- For the Good of All Mankind
- O, Sylvie, Sylvie
- Ariela
- TO BE A MAN
- Pebbles for a Father (click to view)
- Voices from the Corner (click to view)
In this collection, Serge Liberman peoples his narrative terrain with Madonnas, messiahs, golems, restless souls, survivors, artists and poets in search of meaning.
In addition, emerging lifelike from its pages are an engaged couple promising to meet again at war’s end and making good the promise, although fifty years late; another couple wins a handsome lottery prize and an unforseen bonus besides; a writer returns to the adolescent origins of his writing life, a lawyer possessed by the soul of Paul Gauguin is driven on a mission; first loves are recalled; a dysfunctional family are the forebears of world-wide faiths; and in a courageous and honest piece, Liberman recounts his fiery relationship with his father.
In ways signalling new directions, Liberman’s variously quirky, wry, earnest, harrowing, questioning and iconoclastic narratives continue to carve a very individual niche in Australian writing.