VOICES FROM THE CORNER First published in 1999 by Fine-Lit.
- In this collection, Serge Liberman peoples his narrative terrain with Madonnas, messiahs, golems, restless souls, survivors, artists and poets in search of meaning.
In addition, emerging lifelike from its pages are an engaged couple promising to meet again at war’s end and making good the promise, although fifty years late; another couple wins a handsome lottery prize and an unforseen bonus besides; a writer returns to the adolescent origins of his writing life, a lawyer possessed by the soul of Paul Gauguin is driven on a mission; first loves are recalled; a dysfunctional family are the forebears of world-wide faiths; and in a courageous and honest piece, Liberman recounts his fiery relationship with his father. In ways signalling new directions, Liberman’s variously quirky, wry, earnest, harrowing, questioning and iconoclastic narratives continue to carve a very individual niche in Australian writing.
“Liberman’s variously quirky, wry, earnest, harrowing, questioning and iconoclastic narratives continue to carve a very individual niche in Australian writing.”
Contents:
- St Kilda Madonna (available to read here)
- The Promise (available to read here)
- Hegera’s Curse (available to read here)
- The Messiah in Acland Street (available to read here)
- The Soul of Paul Gauguin (available to read here)
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The Scar (available to read here)
- Till All Has Been Said and All Has Been Done (available to read here)
- The Luck of the Draw (available to read here)
- Beinish Gotteskind (available to read here)
- For the Good of All Mankind (available to read here)
- Keinfreind’s Golem (available to read here)
- Voices from the corner (available to read here)
- O, Sylvie, Sylvie
- Ariela
- To be a Man (available to read here)
- Pebbles for a Father (available to read here)