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“Men from Snowy River” Rudd and Turnbull Immortalised in Australian Epic
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?Men from Snowy River? Rudd and Turnbull Immortalised in Australian Epic
Modern Australian political leaders are not usually the stuff of which epics are
made.
But today?s federal leaders are the Chosen Ones of the latest Australian...
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?Men from Snowy River? Rudd and Turnbull Immortalised in Australian Epic
Modern Australian political leaders are not usually the stuff of which epics are
made.
But today?s federal leaders are the Chosen Ones of the latest Australian epic
poem to hit the shelves.
Sydney, NSW, September 17, 2009 -- Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull are among the
disguised anti-heroes of Australia?s latest epic poem.
In an extraordinarily ornate
piece of writing, the book The Common Weal: A fictitious Australian tragedy makes a
valiant and visible attempt to be as Australian as Henry Lawson?s Man from Snowy
River though in style it is more akin to Milton?s Paradise Lost, in bloodiness to
Hamlet and in macabre wit to King Lear.
Perhaps it is unfair to psychoanalyse such an obscure author as Kundan Misra.
However, it is tempting to regard the book as reflective of an attempt to overcome
the ambiguity of Misra?s his background which is multicultural in the extreme.
Other interpretations of the author?s l
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