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Romulus, My Father is a biographical memoir, first published in 1998, written by the Australian philosopher Raimond Gaita. The memoir outlines the life of his father, Romulus Gaita (1922 – May 1996).
Jan 1, 1998 · Romulus, My Father is a migrant story of the Gaita family who leave former Yugoslavia in 1950 and move to country Victoria. It is full of tragedy involving leaving one's homeland, infidelity, madness, suicide, estrangement, and death.
Raimond Gaita has an extraordinary story to tell about growing up with his father amid the stony paddocks and flowing grasses of country Australia. Written simply and movingly, Romulus My Father is about how a compassionate and honest man taught his son the meaning of living a decent life.
Jul 8, 1999 · The memoir briefly describes Romulus Gaita's early life in Europe, and his arrival in Australia in April 1950 as an assisted migrant, together with his wife Christine and their four year old son Raimond.
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Mar 31, 2015 · Gaita has referred to Romulus, My Father as a ‘tragic poem’. Here, he is referring to the classical Greek idea of tragedy: that is, a portrayal of how good people are seen to suffer at the hands of fate or unmovable circumstance.
Dec 16, 2022 · In his 1998 memoir, Romulus, My Father, Raimond Gaita laid bare his struggles growing up in a shack in central Victoria with troubled parents. Now 76, the philosopher is coming to terms with a different challenge: Parkinson’s disease. Tony Maniaty. December 16, 2022.
The story of his childhood and the lives of Gaita's family members and close friends is told in his memoir Romulus, My Father. He wrote it over a few weeks after Gaita gave the eulogy at his father's funeral, and after its publication in 1998 it became an instant bestseller.
Written simply and movingly, Romulus, My Father is about how a compassionate and honest man taught his son the meaning of living a decent life. It is about...
Gaita, Romulus, 1922-1996 -- Family, Gaita, Raimond, 1946-, Immigrants -- Australia -- Biography, Yugoslavs -- Australia -- Biography, Australia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century Publisher London : Review
Jul 31, 2017 · Tragic events were to overtake the boy’s life, but Raimond Gaita has an extraordinary and moving tale to tell of growing up with his father in country Victoria. Romulus, My Father is the much-loved story of how a compassionate, honest man taught his son the meaning of living a decent life.
May 18, 2024 · After a lifetime of talking and thinking about ethics and morality, renowned philosopher and author of Romulus, My Father, Raimond Gaita is still living by his convictions.
Sep 1, 1999 · Romulus Gaita fled his home in his native Yugoslavia at the age of thirteen, and came to Australia with his young wife Christina and their infant son Raimond soon after the end of World War II. Tragic events were to overtake the boy's life, but Raimond Gaita has an extraordinary story to tell about growing up with his father amid the stony ...
Raimond Gaita’s memoir, Romulus, My Father (1998), tells the story of Gaita’s father, Romulus, who immigrated to Australia from Yugoslavia in the early 1950s. Romulus suffered from mental illness and struggled to raise his son, Raimond, after the suicide of his wife.
Raimond Gaita has an extraordinary story to tell about growing up with his father amid the stony paddocks and flowing grasses of country Australia. Written simply and movingly, 'Romulus, My Father' is about how a compassionate and honest man taught his son the meaning of living a decent life.
May 2, 2013 · Truth and Biography: Writing Romulus, My Father. Raimond Gaita (p1) The Monthly. 12.9K subscribers. Subscribed. 28. 6.1K views 10 years ago. Part 1 | Part 2 At the National Biography Award...
Jul 31, 2017 · Romulus Gaita fled Yugoslavia aged thirteen, and came to Australia with his wife and their son soon after World War II. Tragic events were to overtake the boy's life, but Raimond Gaita has an extraordinary and moving tale to tell of growing up with his father in country Victoria.
Raimond Gaita has an extraordinary story to tell about growing up with his father amid the stony paddocks and flowing grasses of country Australia. Written simply and movingly, Romulus, My Father is about how a compassionate and honest man taught his son the meaning of living a decent life.
Romulus, My Father is a 2007 Australian drama film directed by Richard Roxburgh. Based on the memoir of the same name by Raimond Gaita, the film tells the story of Romulus and his wife Christine (Franka Potente), and their struggle in the face of great adversity to raise their son, Raimond, played by the nine-year-old Kodi Smit-McPhee. The film ...
Written simply and movingly, Romulus, My Fatheris about how a compassionate and honest man taught his son the meaning of living a decent life. It is about passion,...
Tragic events were to overtake the boy’s life, but Raimond Gaita has an extraordinary and moving tale to tell of growing up with his father in country Victoria. Romulus, My Father is the much-loved story of how a compassionate, honest man taught his son the meaning of living a decent life.
