Books
Aboriginii Australieni, traducere de Irenel Antoniu, Colectiile Cotdianul Enciclopdica, Découvertes—Cultura si Societate, Editura Univers, 2009. 128pp. Romanian translation of Les Aborigènes D'Australie, 2002.
Co-authored with Adam Shoemaker
LikeJoe in the Andamans and Other Fictocritical Stories, Sydney: Local Consumption Publications, 2008 978-0-949793-33-1 2008, 156pp.
At a dinner party in Sydney, the famous French philosopher Jacques Derrida (author of Margins of Philosophy), asked Stephen Muecke, ‘why the centre?’
The search for answers to such philosophical questions has taken the author on many travels, from Newtown to Madagascar, and after reading a 1930s children’s book to his son, to the Andaman Islands: ‘a place where boys’ own adventures might still be possible, way off the usual tourist trail.’
This is a writing full of surprises, where reality comes to life and talks to us, tells its stories and puts its arguments. The writing seeks to go with the momentum of the surprises, which are cloudbursts of feelings as much as of thoughts.
The strange space of fictocritical writing has been popular in Australia for a couple of decades and Stephen Muecke has been one of its main promoters, both as a writer and teacher at The University of Technology, Sydney. This collection of essays follows his popular fictocritical travelogue No Road (bitumen all the way).
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