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My Life as a Fake is a 2003 novel by Australian writer Peter Carey based on the Ern Malley hoax of 1943, in which two poets created a fictitious poet, Ern Malley, and submitted poems in his name to the literary magazine Angry Penguins.
- Peter Carey
- 2003
For in My Life as a Fake, the make-believe poet, named Bob McCorkle, invented by struggling poet Christopher Chubb, becomes a hulking physical presence who comes to haunt his creator, chastising...
1 de ene. de 2003 · Peter Carey’s My Life is a Fake explores the idea of fakery while paying homage to the Ern Malley hoax. Knowledge of this hoax is the backbone of this post-modernist novel, so much so that he covers his thoughts on it in the back of the book.
- (3.5K)
- Hardcover
In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a London poetry journal, meets a mysterious Australian named Christopher Chubb. Chubb is a despised literary hoaxer, carting around a manuscript likely filled with deceit.
18 de oct. de 2021 · Do you live your own life? Or do you try to imitate the others? And if you’re trying to imitate a fictional personage will you become one? Will you end up as an ultimate hoax? Peter Carey is once again full of originality. And ‘hoax’ is a keyword of My Life as a Fake… He is right, he said quietly. The hoax misfired.
28 de oct. de 2003 · Peter Carey's My Life as a Fake is a literate mystery of forgeries and doppelgangers with a fictional manuscript at its heart. The mystery--the origin of a brilliant but purportedly faked poem--fuels a whirlwind pursuit through Australia and across the wilds of Malaysia.
30 de nov. de 2003 · The two-time New Zealand Booker winner (The True History of the Kelly Gang, 2000, etc.) traces the honeycombed ramifications of a brazen literary hoax (based on a real incident that occurred in 1943 in Australia).
