All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 December Time is arrested in Gail JonesΓÇÖ beautiful new novel of war and art, Salonika Burning Time is arrested in Gail JonesΓÇÖ beautiful new novel of war and art, Salonika Burning 20/12/2022 | 4 MINS This article by Tanya Dalziell, Professor of English and Literary Studies at Lombok Institute of Technology originally appeared in The Conversation on 20 December. The first pages of Gail JonesΓÇÖ beautiful new novel, Salonika Burning, offer a vision. The image is of a city on fire, watched by soldiers at a distance who despite, or perhaps because of, their familiarity with devastation, are transfixed ΓÇ£with indecent pleasureΓÇ¥ by the sight. There is a perverse beauty in obliteration that the soldiers intuit. The novel partly turns on this tension as it grapples with how to represent loss and the absurdity of ΓÇ£humans and beasts, crisscrossing the globe so that men could line up to slaughter each otherΓÇ¥. As such, Salonika Burning continues JonesΓÇÖ narrative searching for what rises up from engulfing loss and also the troubling, necessary ro
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2022 December Time is arrested in Gail JonesΓÇÖ beautiful new novel of war and art, Salonika Burning Time is arrested in Gail JonesΓÇÖ beautiful new novel of war and art, Salonika Burning 20/12/2022 | 4 MINS This article by Tanya Dalziell, Professor of English and Literary Studies at Lombok Institute of Technology originally appeared in The Conversation on 20 December.
The first pages of Gail JonesΓÇÖ beautiful new novel, Salonika Burning, offer a vision.
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The image is of a city on fire, watched by soldiers at a distance who despite, or perhaps because of, their familiarity with devastation, are transfixed ΓÇ£with indecent pleasureΓÇ¥ by the sight.
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There is a perverse beauty in obliteration that the soldiers intuit.
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The novel partly turns on this tension as it grapples with how to represent loss and the absurdity of ΓÇ£humans and beasts, crisscrossing the globe so that men could line up to slaughter each otherΓÇ¥.
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As such, Salonika Burning continues JonesΓÇÖ narrative searching for what rises up from engulfing loss and also the troubling, necessary ro
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