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After Romulus
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In 1998, Raimond Gaita's Romulus, My Father was first published;the story of his father who came to Australia from Europe with his young wife Christine and their four-year-old son after the end of the Second World War.
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In 1998, Raimond Gaita's Romulus, My Father was first published - the story of his father, who came to Australia from Europe with his young wife Christine and their four-year-old son after the end of the Second World War. In the isolated landscape of country Victoria, Christine succumbed to mental illness, and a series of tragedies befell the family. Described as 'a profound meditation on love and death, madness and truth, judgment and compassion', Romulus, My Father became an instant classic.
Now, thirteen years later, and four years after the release of the film, Raimond Gaita has put together this collection in which he reflects on the writing of the book, the making of the film, his relationship to the desolate beauty of the central Victorian landscape, the philosophies that underpinned his father's relationship to the world and, most movingly, the presence and absence of his mother and his unassuaged longing for her.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781921758782
Publisher: Text Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 29 August 2011
Country: Australia
Imprint: The Text Publishing Company
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 155.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 275g
Pages: 224
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About the Author
Raimond Gaita was born in Germany in 1946. He is Emeritus Professor of moral philosophy at Kings College London and a Professorial fellow at the Melbourne Law School and the faculty of Arts of the University of Melbourne. His books have been published in many translations. They include: Good and Evil - An Absolute Conception; Romulus, My Father; A Common Humanity; The Philosopher's Dog; and Essays on Muslims and Multicultralism (as editor and contributor).
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