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Nov 6, 2023 · The most astonishing and accomplished sequence in Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 arrives near the book’s end, as he describes the near-death experience that inspired his first novel, Death of a...
May 29, 2024 · When Tasmanian author Richard Flanagan was 21, he almost drowned. Trapped in his kayak he had to hold his body taut to prevent the raging waters of the Franklin River filling his mouth. That’s what reading his memoir, Question 7, is like: stories, ideas, snatches of memory cascade; language rains down in torrents, leaving you dizzy ...
Oct 31, 2023 · Question 7 is a big, discursive, multidisciplinary chunk of life-writing from Australian author Richard Flanagan, which mixes memoir, literary history, travel writing, and philosophical musings on everything from ethics to colonialism to class.
Mar 3, 2024 · Question 7, then, explores some of the toughest imponderables of our existence. It reminds us that once something happens, it doesn’t go away, but is part of the past, present and future, is part of the fabric of our being.
“Question 7 is a profoundly moving love song for the writer’s parents, a forensic excavation, a lament, a confession, a jigsaw puzzle in which Hiroshima connects to H.G. Wells and the Martians colonise Tasmania.
Imagine the Tasmanian author’s body of work to date as a many-coloured coat, a shimmering patchwork of story. With Question 7 that coat is turned inside out so that the old, familiar patterns are reversed . . . Flanagan furnishes readers with an autobiographical key to his oeuvre.
- Richard Flanagan
Oct 31, 2023 · Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 is a profoundly moving love song for the writer’s parents, a forensic excavation, a lament, a confession, a jig-saw puzzle in which Hiroshima connects to HG Wells, and the Martians colonise Tasmania.
May 30, 2024 · ‘Question 7 by Richard Flanagan is a memoir about his parents, interwoven with meditations on Tasmania, genocide, colonialism, the atomic bomb, H.G. Wells and Rebecca West… it is fiercely alive and genuinely hard to put down.
Oct 23, 2023 · Richard Flanagan’s Question 7 is that magic trick made manifest, a profound journey that draws its meandering path through tragedies great and small, from the skies above Hiroshima to the rivers of Tasmania.
Through a hypnotic melding of dream, history, science, and memory, Question 7 shows how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves. ‘I was fascinated, troubled, and enchanted by this strange and extraordinary work...
